Berlin-Staaken station

Berlin-Staaken
Berlin-Staaken
Through station
General information
Location	Staaken, Spandau, Berlin ; Germany
Coordinates	52°32′16″N13°08′29″E / 52.53778°N 13.14139°E Coordinates: 52°32′16″N13°08′29″E / 52.53778°N 13.14139°E
Line(s)	Lehrte Railway ;
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	564
DS100 code	BSTA
Category	6
Fare zone	VBB: Berlin B/5656
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	15 August 1900;122 years ago
Closed	18 September 1980 (strike), officially 28 September 1980;42 years ago
Rebuilt	1951: new platform in West Staaken, opposite to station in East Staaken; 1976: new station 700 further west; 1998: new main line station 700 further east
Electrified	3 August 1951;71 years ago, 750 V DC system (3rd rail); main line: 13 December 1998;24 years ago, 15 kV AC system (overhead)
Previous names	1910-1937 Staaken; 1937-1980 Berlin-Staaken; 1962-1990 Staaken
Key dates
13 August 1961 - 4 March 1962	operation interrupted
1995 - 1998	operation interrupted
Services
Location
	Berlin-Staaken Location within Berlin

Last updated March 25, 2023

Berlin-Staaken is a railway station located in Staaken, a locality in the Spandau district of Berlin. It is one of only two Deutsche Bahn stations in Berlin not served by the S-Bahn; Albrechtshof station is the other.

Overview

The station is situated on the "Lehrter Bahn" Berlin-Wolfsburg-Hannover, between the stations of Berlin Spandau and Dallgow-Döberitz. The station has two platforms.

The first station in Staaken was opened in 1900. That should change drastically after the Second World War. Staaken was divided by the Allies. The continuous train traffic was interrupted. On West Berlin side 1951 the rapid-transit railway of Spandau west was extended by a station to Staaken. Already in the 1930s an extension of the rapid-transit railway to the Brandenburg Wustermark had been aimed at. The S-Bahn station Berlin-Staaken was in West Berlin. On the other side of the Nennhauser dam was the station Staaken Kr. Nauen (at the former freight yard Staaken) in the GDR area, from where suburban trains in the direction of Wustermark and Nauen reversed. To change trains between S-Bahn and suburban trains, passengers had to change stations and pass a checkpoint. With the building of the Wall, another Staaken station was added far before the border: Staaken (GDR). He served the control of freight trains between West Berlin and the Federal territory or the GDR.

When Staaken was also to be passed by transit trains of travel traffic between Berlin and Hamburg in 1976, a new control station Staaken (GDR) was built further west. Before, since 1961, the Hamburg long-distance trains had to take the detour via the Berlin outer ring and Griebnitzsee. The transit tracks were sealed off between border and control station on both sides by a high protective wall. The station Staaken Kr. Nauen for domestic traffic within the GDR was moved west to the Feldstraße. There the passenger trains from direction Wustermark ended at a separate head track south of the protective wall to the transit tracks.

Formerly located in the death strip railway crossing "Elephant Gate", 1991 Elefantentor1.jpg — Formerly located in the death strip railway crossing "Elephant Gate", 1991

At the new station Staaken Kr. Nauen was for the transition of the field road on the transit tracks probably the safest railroad crossing in the world: Because here the protective wall had to be interrupted, instead of barriers massive roller shutters secured the sealed transit corridor in train traffic through Staaken.

On West Berlin side of the S-Bahn operation ended after Staaken after not even 30 years as a result of the Berlin S-Bahn strike in 1980. After the takeover of the Berlin S-Bahn by the Berlin transport operations in 1984 was again a S-Bahn-development Staakens considered.

With the reunification all Staaken became part of Berlin-Spandau again. In regional traffic drove from 1990 again through trains from Nauen on the Lehrter Bahn to Berlin-Spandau, from 1991 completely replaced the previous train offer. The trains could no longer approach the head track on Feldstraße, the stop in Staaken was dropped. On pressure of the population drove first weekdays still commuter trains between Dallgow (later Dallgow-Döberitz) and Staaken, before a makeshift stop on the main tracks was built, so again a connection from Staaken towards Spandau was created. As of 1996, the Lehrter Bahn was expanded as one of the transport projects German unit for a top speed of 250 km / h. The rail traffic was replaced by buses for two years. The old Staakener stations were demolished during the construction. In 1998, the newly built platform was inaugurated on the side of the ICE route in the amount of existing from 1951 to 1976 station.

Also in the area of Staaken is the Berlin-Albrechtshof station.

Train services

The station is serves by the following service(s):^[4]

Regional service RE 4 Rathenow – Wustermark – Berlin-Staaken – Berlin – Ludwigsfelde – Jüterbog – Falkenberg (Elster)
Regional service RB 21 Potsdam – Wustermark – Berlin-Staaken – Berlin-Spandau – Berlin Gesundbrunnen

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References

↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
↑ "Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
↑ "Der VBB-Tarif: Aufteilung des Verbundgebietes in Tarifwaben und Tarifbereiche" (PDF). Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam. Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg. 1 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
↑ Timetables for Berlin-Staaken station (in German)

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"Map of Staaken border station in 1976" (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2014.

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[Eisenbahnatlas-1] Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.

[categories-2] "Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.

[3] "Der VBB-Tarif: Aufteilung des Verbundgebietes in Tarifwaben und Tarifbereiche" (PDF). Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam. Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg. 1 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2019.

[4] Timetables for Berlin-Staaken station (in German)

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