Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg station

Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg
Deutsche Bahn

View of the platform from the level crossing
Location Drewitz, Potsdam, Brandenburg
Germany
Coordinates 52°22′55″N 13°7′18″E / 52.38194°N 13.12167°E / 52.38194; 13.12167Coordinates: 52°22′55″N 13°7′18″E / 52.38194°N 13.12167°E / 52.38194; 13.12167
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 5013
DS100 codeBDW [1]
IBNR8011430
Category5[2]
History
Opened 15 May 1879
Previous names Drewitz (1879–2000)
Traffic
Passengers < 2,500/day

Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg station is a station on the Berlin–Blankenheim railway located in the east of the Potsdam district of Drewitz near Babelsberg, the historic centre of the German film industry, and the former West Berlin exclave of Steinstücken. The station's DS-100 code is BDW[1] and its station’s mumerical code is 5013.[2] It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[2]

Station building in October 2007, still displaying the old name

The station was opened on 15 May 1879 with the name of Drewitz. It was a freight border crossing point from East Germany to West Berlin from 1949 to 1990. Numerous safety devices were installed for this purpose such as special points that would prevent an unauthorised movement of a locomotive towards Berlin-Wannsee in the American sector of Berlin. This meant that some sets of points would cause trains making unauthorised movements to derail.

After the reunification of Germany, an ICE connecting train ran from Berlin Zoologischer Garten through Drewitz station to Michendorf as electrification had not been completed on any line from the west to Berlin.

On 28 May 2000, the station’s name was changed to the current name in order to emphasise its proximity to the Babelsberg Media City (Medienstadt), including Babelsberg Studio.

The entire building is under heritage protection.

Rail services

The following services stop at the station:

Line Route
RE 7 Wünsdorf-Waldstadt – Berlin-Schönefeld Flughafen – Berlin – Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg – Michendorf – Bad Belzig – Dessau
RB 33 Berlin-Wannsee – Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg – Michendorf – Beelitz Stadt – Treuenbrietzen – Jüterbog

See also

References

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  1. 1 2 Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. 1 2 3 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
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