Fredersdorf – Rüdersdorf railway line

Fredersdorf – Rüdersdorf
Route number (DB) :	6533
Course book section (DB) :	594b (1939)
Route length:	5.4 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Dual track :	No
Legend Eastern Railway from Berlin 0.0 Fredersdorf (b Berlin) 54  m above sea level NHN Eastern railway to Kostrzyn 1.6 Petershagen (b Berlin) 5.4 Rüdersdorf (b Berlin) former personal bf. Connection CEMEX

Rüdersdorf (b Berlin) station in 2013

The Fredersdorf – Rüdersdorf line is a single-track, 5.4 km long branch line that branches off the Ostbahn in Fredersdorf and ends in Rüdersdorf near Berlin . The only stopover on the route was the Petershagen stop.

On September 15, 1872, the Royal Prussian State Railways opened the branch line from Fredersdorf to Rüdersdorf. It was used for passenger and freight traffic. On October 1, 1891, the Berlin suburban tariff was introduced on the route. On May 30, 1965, the Deutsche Reichsbahn stopped passenger traffic on the line. Since then it has only been used for freight traffic and there is a connection to the Rüdersdorfer Werkbahnen . The Berlin S-Bahn tariff was still in effect after the rail traffic in the buses between Fredersdorf and Rüdersdorf ceased. Until the introduction of common tariffs for S-Bahn and other local public transport in the early 1990s, Petershagen and Rüdersdorf were the only two in the list of Berlin S-Bahn stations that were only served by buses.

Web links

• A brief history of the route on berliner-bahnen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief route history on berliner-bahnen.de, accessed on January 15, 2015
2. ↑ Data and facts about the Prussian Ostbahn and its branch lines on bahnstrecken.de, accessed on January 15, 2015
3. ↑ Various course books