BER Airport
Deutsche Bahn Berlin S-Bahn
Bf
BER Airport station with IC, RB and S-Bahn trains
General information
LocationMelli-Beese-Ring
12259 Schönefeld
Brandenburg
Germany
Coordinates52°21′52.81″N 13°30′38.88″E / 52.3646694°N 13.5108000°E / 52.3646694; 13.5108000
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms3 island platforms
Tracks6 (2 S-Bahn, 4 Regional/long distance)
Connections
  • X7 X71 734 735 736 N7 N60 BER1 BER2
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Other information
Station code8192
DS100 codeBFBI/BFBB (S-Bahn)[1]
IBNR8011201
Category2[2]
Fare zoneVerkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB)
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
OpenedOctober 26, 2020[3]
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Berlin Südkreuz
towards Warnemünde
 IC 17
reverses out
 Doberlug-Kirchhain
towards Chemnitz Hbf
Preceding station DB Regio Nordost Following station
Berlin Ostkreuz
towards Berlin Hbf
 Flughafen-Express Terminus
Ludwigsfelde-Struveshof
towards Potsdam Hbf
 RB 22
 Königs Wusterhausen
Terminus
Berlin Ostkreuz
towards Golm
 RB 23 Terminus
Preceding station Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn Following station
Berlin Ostkreuz
towards Wismar
 RE 8 Terminus
Preceding station Berlin S-Bahn Following station
Waßmannsdorf
towards Südkreuz
 S45 Terminus
Waßmannsdorf
towards Spandau
 S9
Location
Flughafen BER is located in Berlin
Flughafen BER
Flughafen BER
Location within Berlin
Flughafen BER is located in Brandenburg
Flughafen BER
Flughafen BER
Location within Brandenburg
Flughafen BER is located in Germany
Flughafen BER
Flughafen BER
Location within Germany
Flughafen BER is located in Europe
Flughafen BER
Flughafen BER
Location within Europe

BER Airport station (German: Bahnhof Flughafen BER), until December 2023 Flughafen BER – Terminal 1-2 station,[4] 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 3.1-kilometre-long (1.9 mi) 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.[5][6] The public clients agreed to pay a fixed price of 285 million euros, although the actual construction cost was well below that number.[7] While the airport itself was not in operation, empty trains were running through the tunnels to drive out humidity.[8] DB ultimately sued the airport for damages due to the unused station. The station was opened for regular passenger traffic on 26 October 2020,[9] 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.[10] 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.[4]

Train services

The station is served by the following regular service(s):[10][11]

  • Intercity services IC 17 Dresden – BER Airport – Berlin – Rostock – Warnemünde (every 2 hours)
  • Regional services FEX Berlin Hauptbahnhof – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Ostkreuz – BER Airport
  • Regional services RE 8 Wismar – Schwerin – Ludwigslust – Wittenberge – Nauen – Berlin-Spandau – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Ostbf – Berlin Ostkreuz – BER Airport
  • Local services RB 22 Königs Wusterhausen – BER Airport – Ludwigsfelde-Struveshof – Golm – Potsdam
  • Local services RB 23 (Potsdam Golm – Potsdam –) Berlin-Charlottenburg – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Friedrichstraße – Berlin Alexanderplatz – Berlin Ostbf – Berlin Ostkreuz – BER Airport
  • S-Bahn services S45 BER Airport – Schöneweide – Neukölln – Südkreuz
  • S-Bahn services S9 BER Airport – Schöneweide – Ostbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Hauptbahnhof – Westkreuz – Spandau

See also

References

  1. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2017 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
  2. ↑ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. ↑ Smith, Kevin (26 October 2020). "Berlin Brandenburg Airport railways finally open". International Railway Journal. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  4. 1 2 berliner-zeitung.de (German) 9 March 2023
  5. ↑ (in German) Infos on the Berliner Parliament website
  6. ↑ (in German) Infos at the Bundestag website
  7. ↑ ""Festpreis ist Festpreis"".
  8. ↑ "Im nagelneuen Bahnhof hält kein Zug". Archived from the original on 2017-02-22. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  9. ↑ "S9 soll ab 26. Oktober bis zum BER fahren" (in German). RBB. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  10. 1 2 Berlin Brandenburg Airport station on "S-Bahn Berlin GMBH" website Archived October 14, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ (in German) vbb.de

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