BER Airport station explained

BER Airport
Native Name Lang:de
Symbol:rail
Symbol2:s
Symbol Location:de
Symbol Location2:berlin
Type:Bf
Address:Melli-Beese-Ring
12259 Schönefeld
Borough:Brandenburg
Country:Germany
Coordinates:52.3647°N 13.5108°W
Structure:Underground
Owned:DB InfraGO
Platforms:3 island platforms
Tracks:6 (2 S-Bahn, 4 Regional/long distance)
Opened:October 26, 2020[1]
Website:www.bahnhof.de
Map Type:Berlin#Brandenburg#Germany#Europe
Map Dot Label:Flughafen BER
Embedded:
Stroke-Colour:
  1. C60C30
Stroke-Width:3
Marker:rail-underground
Marker-Colour:
  1. 009D58
Zoom:15
Services Collapsible:yes

BER Airport station (German: Bahnhof Flughafen BER), until December 2023 Flughafen BER – Terminal 1-2 station, is a railway station located under the main terminal of Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Germany serving its Terminals 1 and 2. Most train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn, which provides long-distance and regional connections while S-Bahn Berlin offers suburban lines.

Overview

The station is located in a 3.1adj=midNaNadj=mid tunnel, on the Glasower Damm Ost–Bohnsdorf Süd railway and the Grünauer Kreuz–Berlin Brandenburg Airport railway, both of which branch off the Berlin–Görlitz railway; the Glasower Damm Ost–Bohnsdorf Süd railway also branched off the Berlin outer ring. It is in the municipal territory of Schönefeld, just outside Berlin.

History

Construction of the station began in 2007 and the construction of the tunnels was completed on 25 June 2009. The station was handed over to Deutsche Bahn on 30 March 2010 and has been electrified since 7 June 2011.[2] [3] The public clients agreed to pay a fixed price of 285 million euros, although the actual construction cost was well below that number.[4] While the airport itself was not in operation, empty trains were running through the tunnels to drive out humidity.[5] DB ultimately sued the airport for damages due to the unused station. The station was opened for regular passenger traffic on 26 October 2020,[6] a few days before opening of the airport.

The station is served by Berlin S-Bahn, Regional-Express and InterCity services. The station lies directly under the airport terminal and has six platforms. Two of these are terminating platforms for the S-Bahn lines S45 and S9.[7] The Airport is connected with Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin main station) by the RE 9 Airport Express (FEX), with a journey time of 29 minutes as well as slower regional and suburban connections. Upgrades on the Berlin Dresden railway will enable faster and more frequent RE and IC service some time in the 2020s.

Due to the closure of Terminal 5, the station was renamed Flughafen BER station in December 2023, reflecting it is now the sole station serving the airport.[8]

Train services

The station is served by the following regular service(s):[9]

LineRouteInterval
Warnemünde – Rostock – WarenNeustrelitzOranienburg – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Hbf – Berlin SüdkreuzBER AirportElsterwerdaDresden (– Chemnitz)120 min
Dresden HbfFlughafen BERBerlin HbfEberswaldeStralsundOstseebad BinzOne service Sa towards Binz
BER AirportBerlin OstkreuzBerlin GesundbrunnenBerlin Hbf30 min
Berlin OstbahnhofBerlin Alexanderplatz – Berlin Hbf – CharlottenburgSome nighttime services
Königs WusterhausenBER AirportLudwigsfelde-StruveshofSaarmundPotsdamPirschheideGolmPotsdam Park SanssouciPotsdam CharlottenhofPotsdam HbfPotsdam Griebnitzsee60 min
BER AirportBerlin OstkreuzBerlin OstbahnhofBerlin AlexanderplatzBerlin FriedrichstraßeBerlin HbfBerlin-WannseePotsdamGolm60 min
BER AirportBlankenfeldeDahlewitzRangsdorfDabendorfZossenWünsdorf-Waldstadt60 min
BER AirportBirkengrundLudwigsfelde60 min
BER AirportKönigs WusterhausenCottbusOne nighttime service
BER AirportBerlin OstkreuzBerlin HbfBerlin-SpandauNauen – Neustadt – Wittenberge60 min
Flughafen BERSchönefeldSchöneweideWarschauer StraßeOstbahnhofAlexanderplatzFriedrichstraßeHauptbahnhofZoologischer GartenCharlottenburgWestkreuzSpandau20 min
Flughafen BERSchönefeldSchöneweideNeuköllnHermannstraßeTempelhofSüdkreuz20 min

After upgrades on the Berlin Dresden railway, the airport express (FEX) to Hauptbahnhof is to run via Südkreuz and Potsdamer Platz.

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Smith . Kevin . Berlin Brandenburg Airport railways finally open . 31 October 2020 . International Railway Journal . 26 October 2020.
  2. Infos on the Berliner Parliament website
  3. Infos at the Bundestag website
  4. Web site: "Festpreis ist Festpreis".
  5. Web site: Im nagelneuen Bahnhof hält kein Zug. 2017-02-22. 2017-02-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20170222200200/http://m.maz-online.de/Lokales/Dahme-Spreewald/Im-nagelneuen-Bahnhof-haelt-kein-Zug. dead.
  6. Web site: S9 soll ab 26. Oktober bis zum BER fahren . RBB . 17 February 2021 . German.
  7. http://www.s-bahn-berlin.de/fahrplanundnetz/ber.htm Berlin Brandenburg Airport station on "S-Bahn Berlin GMBH" website
  8. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/mobilitaet-neue-stationsnamen-flughafen-ber-umbenennung-in-sicht-so-heissen-die-berliner-flughafenbahnhoefe-kuenftig-li.325866 berliner-zeitung.de
  9. Web site: Fahrpläne – Bahnhof ✈ Flughafen BER . 2024-06-23 . www.bahnhof.de . de.