Erkner station

Erkner
  • through station (long distance)
  • terminus (S-Bahn)

Entrance building
Location Erkner, Brandenburg
Germany
Coordinates 52°25′38″N 13°45′09″E / 52.4273179°N 13.7523806°ECoordinates: 52°25′38″N 13°45′09″E / 52.4273179°N 13.7523806°E
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 1980 [1]
DS100 codeBERK [2]
Category3 [1]
History
Opened 23 October 1842

Erkner station is the passenger station in the town of Erkner situated east of Berlin in the German state of Brandenburg. It is located at kilometre 24.3 on the Berlin-Frankfurt railway. The station also includes a carriage shed for historic rollingstock of the Berlin S-Bahn.

History

The station was opened on 23 October 1842 as one of the first on the line from Berlin to Frankfurt (Oder). A railway settlement was built at the station on garden city principles in the 1920s. As part of the project to build an upgraded line (Ausbaustrecke) between Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder), the regional platforms were rebuilt as side platforms to the south between 2009 and 2011. In parallel, the station building was renovated and the S-Bahn platform was rebuilt from 2012. In the same year electronic interlocking went into operation on the long-distance tracks.

Erkner carriage shed

The Erkner carriage shed (Triebwagenhalle Erkner, TWh Erk) was opened in 1928. It was administrated as part of the Berlin-Grunau workshop. With the introduction of new rollingstock of class 481/482, which was calculated to require less maintenance, the carriage shed was closed in 2000. It has been used since then by the Historische S-Bahn e. V association for rollingstock storage and staff facilities. The historic trains are located here and some minor maintenance work is carried out. In January 2010, the carriage shed was reopened due to the lack of capacity resulting from the cancellation of many services with the new rollingstock in 2009/2010.[3] In December 2011, it became part of the for Friedrichsfelde works for organisational purposes.

Passenger services

The station is served twice per hour in both directions by RE 1 Regional-Express services towards Frankfurt (Oder) and Eisenhüttenstadt and towards Berlin, Brandenburg and Magdeburg. In addition Erkner is the terminus of line S3 of the Berlin S-Bahn. The S-Bahn stops three times an hour in Erkner and six times an hour in the summer months. There is a large bus station next to the station, which is served by cross country buses from the area around Erkner.

Service Train Type Route Material Frequency
RE1 DB Regional Express Brandenburg Hbf - Potsdam Hbf - Berlin-Wannsee - Berlin Zoologischer Garten - Berlin Hbf - Berlin Ostbahnhof - Erkner - Frankfurt (Oder) Class 112, 114, 143 with double-deck stock 1x per hour
RE DB Regional Express Magdeburg Hbf - Brandenburg Hbf - Potsdam Hbf - Berlin-Wannsee - Berlin Zoologischer Garten - Berlin Hbf - Berlin Ostbahnhof - Erkner - Frankfurt (Oder) - Eisenhüttenstadt Class 112, 114, 143 with double-deck stock 1x per hour
S3 S-Bahn Ostkreuz – Rummelsburg – Betriebsbahnhof Rummelsburg – Karlshorst – Wuhlheide – Köpenick – Hirschgarten – Friedrichshagen – Rahnsdorf – Wilhelmshagen – Erkner Class 481, 485 Every 20 minutes
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
Berlin Ostbahnhof
toward Brandenburg Hbf
RE
Fürstenwalde
Berlin Ostbahnhof
toward Magdeburg Hbf
RE
Fürstenwalde
toward Eisenhüttenstadt
Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station
toward Ostkreuz
S3Terminus

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Stationspreisliste 2015" [Station price list 2015] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ↑ "Geschäftsführung und Betriebsrat der S-Bahn Berlin stellen Maßnahmenpaket vor" (Press release) (in German). S-Bahn Berlin GmbH. 8 January 2010. Retrieved 23 November 2014.

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