Berlin Brandenburg Airport train station

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Berlin Brandenburg Airport
Station with tracks 2 and 3
Station with tracks 2 and 3
Data
Design Tunnel station
Platform tracks 4 (long-distance train)
2 (S-Bahn)
abbreviation BFBI (long-distance train)
BFBB (S-Bahn)
Price range 2
opening October 30, 2011
(operational)
planned October 31, 2020
(passenger transport)
location
City / municipality Schönefeld
country Brandenburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 22 '0 "  N , 13 ° 30' 12"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '0 "  N , 13 ° 30' 12"  E
Height ( SO ) 34  m above sea level NHN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Brandenburg
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The Berlin Brandenburg Airport train station (internal rail: Berlin Airport BER ) is the underground train station of the airport of the same name in the Brandenburg municipality of Schönefeld . It has S-Bahn , regional and long-distance train connections . The station and the adjoining routes were completed operationally on the originally planned inauguration date of the airport on October 30, 2011, but have not yet been publicly used due to the delays in the construction of the airport .

location

Southern outer ring

The station is located directly below the airport terminal on the Glasower Damm Ost – Bohnsdorf Süd (long-distance railway) and Grünauer Kreuz – Berlin Airport BER (S-Bahn) railway lines and has six platform tracks. Of the three central platforms , two are used for regional and long-distance trains (405 meters in length, through traffic ) and one for the S-Bahn (152.5 meters in length, operated as a terminus from the west). The route leads west from the Berlin outer ring to the airport, dips underground between the two runways and crosses under the so-called midfield area with the terminal and train station. The long-distance railway tracks continue to the east. After resurfacing, a sweeping system follows . The tracks then run south of the former airport connection line to the Görlitzer Bahn and connect with it at Bohnsdorf / Grünau . This guarantees a traffic connection from the west, from the Anhalter and Dresdener Bahn , as well as from the east, from Königs Wusterhausen and from Berlin via the Görlitzer Bahn.

history

The construction of the station began in February 2007. The tunnels and trough structures were mostly erected as reinforced concrete structures ( white tub ) using in- situ concrete to protect the groundwater from lowering . The topping-out ceremony was held on June 25, 2009 . The completed shell was handed over to Deutsche Bahn on March 30, 2010 for further expansion. The station has been electrically accessible since June 7, 2011.

The station and its connecting lines went into operation on October 30, 2011. On June 2, 2012, the Federal Railway Authority cleared the tunnel for train travel without passenger traffic. The S-Bahn Berlin carried out route knowledge training trips until July 2014 and discontinued them until an opening date was foreseeable. The "anti-mold" ventilation runs will continue. Operation with passenger traffic is only possible after the fire alarm systems at the terminal and train station have been removed.

The shell of the rail connection (tunnel and station) was carried out on behalf of Deutsche Bahn by the airport company on the basis of an agreed fixed amount of 285 million euros. Critics complain that the actual costs were significantly lower. This budget was adhered to despite additional smoke extraction requirements. A total of around 636 million euros were invested in the train station and its connection.

In 2007, the federal government reckoned with 10.6 million rail travelers per year, 1.8 million of them on the S-Bahn. Around half of the expected 27 million passengers per year would be arriving and departing by train.

Connection

Planned connection of BER by bus and train at the projected opening time on October 31, 2020

To connect the station to the rest of the network, 18.5 km of routes for long-distance and regional traffic and 8.6 km for the S-Bahn were built.

The focus of the serving lines is the connection to Berlin and Brandenburg. When the airport opens (probably on October 31, 2020), the RE9 regional express line will connect the airport as the airport express (FEX) in 29 minutes via Ostkreuz and Gesundbrunnen every 30 minutes with Berlin's main train station . In addition, the trains on lines RE7 and RB14 will also connect the stations of the Berlin light rail with the airport approximately every 30 minutes. In addition, the RB22 runs every hour between Potsdam , the airport and Königs-Wusterhausen . According to earlier plans, there should still be a total of six long-distance train pairs to and from Hanover , Hamburg , Munster , Amsterdam , Krakow and the Ruhr area . So far, however, only a two-hour intercity line between Dresden , the airport, Berlin and Rostock is planned . The airport is also served by two S-Bahn lines. The travel time with the S-Bahn should be 51 minutes. Simultaneously with the opening of the airport train station , the old train station at Schönefeld Airport will be renamed BER Airport Terminal 5 and will only be served by S-Bahn traffic.

line Course of the journey Tact
IC 17 Dresden - Elsterwerda - Airport BER Terminal 1-2  - Berlin Hbf - Neustrelitz - Rostock - Warnemünde 120 min
FEX Airport BER Terminal 1-2  - Berlin Ostkreuz - Berlin Gesundbrunnen - Berlin Hbf 030 min
RE 7 Wünsdorf-Waldstadt - Zossen - Blankenfelde - Airport BER Terminal 1-2  - Berliner Stadtbahn - Bad Belzig - Dessau 060 min
RB 14 Airport BER Terminal 1-2  - Berliner Stadtbahn - Nauen 060 min
RB 22 Königs Wusterhausen - Airport BER Terminal 1-2  - Saarmund - Golm - Potsdam Hbf - Potsdam Griebnitzsee 060 min
S45 Airport BER Terminal 1-2 (S-Bahn)  - Airport BER Terminal 5 - Schöneweide - Neukölln - Südkreuz 020 min
S9 Airport BER Terminal 1-2 (S-Bahn)  - Airport BER Terminal 5 - Schöneweide - Ostbahnhof - Friedrichstrasse - Zoologischer Garten - Westkreuz - Spandau 020 min

Operational level planning

From 2022

As part of the reorganization of the regional transport routes in and around Berlin for the timetable change in December 2022, the second operating stage will come into force. Due to the lack of turning options for trains arriving at the airport station from the east, two lines have to return to the old Schönefeld regional station (Berlin Brandenburg Airport Terminal 5) during this operating phase. During this time, the airport express is extended to Wünsdorf-Waldstadt and Ludwigsfelde , alternating every 30 minutes . It is not yet known whether there will be other or additional long-distance trains to and from the airport from this operating level.

From 2025

With the completion of the long-distance tracks of the Dresden Railway, expected in 2025 Template: future / in 4 years, the third operating stage will start. From then on, the airport express will shuttle every 15 minutes between the airport and the main train station via Südkreuz and Potsdamer Platz with a reduced journey time of around 20 minutes . According to the original planning, this should then operate independently and subject to a surcharge. The lines that previously ended at Terminal 5 are then taken to the main terminal and continue to Wünsdorf-Waldstadt and Ludwigsfelde. Nothing is known about the further plans for long-distance traffic.

See also

literature

Bernd Kuhlmann: On rails to Berlin-Brandenburg Airport “Willy Brandt”. In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter , Volume 38, Issue 6 (November / December 2011), pp. 172–178.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DB ProjektBau GmbH (ed.): Infrastructure projects 2010. Building at Deutsche Bahn . Eurailpress-Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7771-0414-0 , pp. 14-26.
  2. a b c d printed matter 17/11071. (PDF; 29 kB) Berlin House of Representatives, October 27, 2012, accessed on November 14, 2012 .
  3. ^ [1] Design architects BDS Bechtloff.Steffen.Architekten BDA formerly BDS Bechtloff.Derfler.Steffen.Architekten BDA
  4. Eisenbahn-Magazin 8/2011, p. 16.
  5. Berliner Verkehrsblätter No. 8/14, p. 156
  6. Berliner Verkehrsblätter No. 4/13, p. 67
  7. Station could cost taxpayers 100 million euros too much . In: Der Spiegel , February 24, 2007
  8. a b c d We are waiting on time ... In: DB Welt . No. December 12 , 2017, p. 14 f .
  9. German Bundestag: Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from the MPs Winfried Hermann, Dr. Anton Hofreiter, Peter Hettlich, other MPs and the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group - printed matter 16/7104 (PDF; 69 kB). In: Drucksache 16/7371 , November 29, 2007.
  10. a b c Public transport connection to the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport. VBB press release. December 6, 2019, accessed December 8, 2016 .
  11. Section transport connections in the airport manual (PDF; 3.1 MB)
  12. In upheaval: There will be many changes in regional train services in Berlin and Brandenburg. In: Signalarchiv 5/2009 (December 2009), pp. 22-25