S7 (Berlin)

S7 is a line on the Berlin S-Bahn.^[1] It operates from Ahrensfelde to Potsdam over:

• the Wriezen Railway, completed on 1 May 1898 and electrified to Marzahn in 1976, to Mehrower Allee in 1980 and to Ahrensfelde in 1982,
• a section of the Outer ring, completed in the early 1940s as part of the Outer freight ring and electrified in 1976,
• a section of the Prussian Eastern line, opened on 1 October 1866 and electrified on 6 November 1928,
• the Stadtbahn, opened on 7 February 1882 and electrified on 11 June 1928,
• a section of the Berlin-Blankenheim line, opened west of Grunewald in 1879 and further east in 1882 and electrified in 1928 and
• a section of the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg line, opened in 1838 and electrified in 1928.

Overview
Locale	Berlin
Service
System	Berlin S-Bahn
Operator(s)	S-Bahn Berlin GmbH
Rolling stock	DBAG Class 481
Technical
Electrification	750 V DC Third rail
Route map Legend Ahrensfelde Mehrower Allee Raoul-Wallenberg-Straße Marzahn Poelchaustraße to Wartenberg Springpfuhl to Strausberg Nord Friedrichsfelde Ost Lichtenberg Nöldnerplatz to Erkner Ostkreuz to BER Airport Warschauer Straße Ostbahnhof Jannowitzbrücke Alexanderplatz Hackescher Markt Spree Kupfergraben Friedrichstraße Spree Berlin-Spandau Ship Canal Hauptbahnhof Spree Bellevue Tiergarten Landwehr Canal Zoologischer Garten Savignyplatz Charlottenburg Westkreuz to Spandau Grunewald Nikolassee Wannsee Brandenburg–Berlin state border Griebnitzsee Babelsberg Potsdam Hbf This diagram: view talk edit

Service history

The S7 was created on 2 June 1991, replacing the Red route of the East Berlin S-Bahn between Alexanderplatz and Ahrensfelde, with the western terminus extended to Friedrichstraße.^[2][3]

Gallery

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  S7 leaving Berlin Hauptbahnhof en route for Ahrensfelde

References

1. "S-Bahn Network Map" (PDF). S-Bahn Berlin GmbH. 27 June 2008. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
2. "How the S-Bahn got its numbers". S-Bahn Berlin (in German). Berlin: Deutsche Bahn. 9 June 2021. Archived from the original on 18 May 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
3. "Berliner Nahverkehrsnetz – Schnellbahnnetz". Berliner Linienchronik (in German). Berlin: Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe. November 1990. Archived from the original on 19 May 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.