Berlin-Wedding railway station

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This article is about a railway station. For the district of Berlin, see Wedding (Berlin).

U-Bahn station Wedding, taken from the bottom of the steps to the S-Bahnhof of the same name

Wedding is a station in the district of Berlin with the same name and serves the S-Bahn lines S41 and S42 and the U-Bahn line U6.

[edit] S-Bahn station

Wedding S-Bahn station first opened on 1st May, 1872. It is part of the Berlin Ringbahn, a circular line traversing many of the central districts of the city. The service, however, was disrupted in 1961 by the building of the Berlin Wall and Wedding S-Bahn station went out of use in 1980 after passenger numbers on the route fell to unsustainable levels.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, many disused S-Bahn routes were gradually reinstated. The section of line between the stations Westhafen and Gesundbrunnen, with Wedding as the only intermediate station, was the last of these to be reopened. This occurred on 16th June, 2002, a date which was nicknamed Wedding-Day, a pun based on the clash of meanings of the word 'wedding' in English and German.

[edit] U-Bahn station

Wedding U-Bahn station first opened on 8th March, 1923 along with the rest of the newly-built line between the stations Stettiner Bahnhof (now Zinnowitzer Straße) and Seestraße. It was opened bearing the name Bahnhof Wedding (Wedding station), reflecting the fact that there existed interchange with the adjoining station served by long-distance trains. It was given its current name in 1972 as the station no longer existed, and has greatly increased in significance since 2002 when the interchange with the S-Bahn was reinstated.

[edit] Other transport links

In addition to its rail links, the station is also served by two bus lines during the day (one of which runs continuously) and two at night. The nearby Nettelbeckplatz was once a major hub for tram lines, but these were removed in 1958.

Preceding station	Berlin S-Bahn	Following station
Westhafen One-way operation	S41	Gesundbrunnen toward Ringbahn (clockwise)
Gesundbrunnen One-way operation	S42	Westhafen toward Ringbahn (counter-clockwise)
Preceding station	Berlin U-Bahn	Following station
Leopoldplatz toward Alt-Tegel	U6	Reinickendorfer Straße toward Alt-Mariendorf