Berlin Olympiastadion station

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General information
Location Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Berlin
Germany
Owned by Deutsche Bahn
Operated by
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  • Berlin transit icons - S3.svg Berlin transit icons - S9.svg
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Station code7731
DS100 code BOLS
Category 4
Fare zone VBB-Logo.svg : Berlin B/5656 [1]
History
Opened23 May 1909;115 years ago (1909-05-23)
Closed1945, 27 April to 9 June
19 September 1980 to 16 January 1998;26 years ago (1998-01-16)
Rebuilt1935/1936
Electrified23 August 1928;96 years ago (1928-08-23)
Previous names1909-1930: Rennbahn
1930-1935: Stadion – Rennbahn Grunewald
1935-1960: Reichssportfeld
Services
Preceding station Berlin S-Bahn Following station
Pichelsberg
towards Spandau
S3 Heerstraße
towards Erkner
S9 Heerstraße
towards BER Airport
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Olympiastadion is a railway station in the Westend district of Berlin. Located at the southern entrance of the Olympic Stadium, it is served by the S-Bahn lines S3 and S9. The station consists of one island platform which is in regular use, as well as four further terminal island platforms which are only used for the extra trains during major events.

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Olympiastadion station: platforms

The station opened in 1909 on the Westbahn suburban railway north of the Grunewald forest. It was then called Rennbahn after a horse racing circuit at the site of the today's stadium. Like the nearby U-Bahn station it received the name Stadion in 1913, when the Deutsches Stadion , projected for the 1916 Summer Olympics, was inaugurated. After Berlin was awarded the 1936 Summer Olympics the station was again renamed Reichssportfeld until it got its actual designation in 1960, spelled without a hyphen in contrast to the Olympia-Stadion U-Bahn station. Adjacent to the south is the Berlin Unité d'Habitation, erected in 1958 according to plans by Le Corbusier. The station was closed in 1980, following the boycott by West Berliners on the East German-run S-Bahn, and the 1980 Deutsche Reichsbahn strike, taking away almost all traffic from the terminus. Most of the West Berlin portion of the S-Bahn, including Olympiastadion, was closed until 1998. The station re-opened in 1999.

For the reconstruction, large parts of the facility were demolished and rebuilt, including all platforms and the pedestrian bridge to Trakehner Allee. The special platform F was abandoned. On January 16, 1998, with the reopening of the Westkreuz–Spandau section, the suburban platform A and the special platform B, now with two platform edges each, went into operation. The remaining three island platforms followed on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the S-Bahn's launch, on May 29, 1999. Since then, the event station has had a capacity of 40,000 passengers per hour. A sold-out Olympiastadion can therefore be “emptied” in less than two hours.

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