BER Airport station

This article is about the new main railway station at Berlin Brandenburg Airport. For the older station at Schönefeld, see Schönefeld (bei Berlin) station.

BER Airport station (German: Bahnhof Flughafen BER), until December 2023 Flughafen BER – Terminal 1-2 station,^[4] is a railway station located under the main terminal of Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Germany serving its Terminals 1 and 2. Most train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn, which provides long-distance and regional connections while S-Bahn Berlin offers suburban lines.

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BER Airport station with IC, RB and S-Bahn trains
General information
Location	Melli-Beese-Ring 12259 Schönefeld Brandenburg Germany
Coordinates	52°21′52.81″N 13°30′38.88″E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB InfraGO
Line(s)	Glasower Damm Ost–Bohnsdorf Süd railway Grünauer Kreuz–Berlin Brandenburg Airport
Platforms	3 island platforms
Tracks	6 (2 S-Bahn, 4 Regional/long distance)
Connections	X7 X71 734 735 736 N7 N60 BER1 BER2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Other information
Station code	8192
DS100 code	BFBI/BFBB (S-Bahn)[1]
IBNR	8011201
Category	2[2]
Fare zone
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	October 26, 2020[3]
Services Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Berlin Südkreuz towards Warnemünde IC 17 Reverses direction Doberlug-Kirchhain towards Chemnitz Hbf Berlin Hbf towards Ostseebad Binz ICE 21 Elsterwerda One-way operation Preceding station DB Regio Nordost Following station Berlin Ostkreuz towards Berlin Hbf or Berlin-Charlottenburg Flughafen-Express Terminus Ludwigsfelde-Struveshof towards Potsdam Griebnitzsee RB 22 Königs Wusterhausen Terminus Berlin Ostkreuz towards Golm RB 23 Terminus Terminus RB 24 Blankenfelde towards Wünsdorf-Waldstadt RE 2 Limited service Königs Wusterhausen towards Cottbus Hbf Preceding station Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn Following station Berlin Ostkreuz towards Wismar RE 8 Terminus Preceding station Berlin S-Bahn Following station Waßmannsdorf towards Südkreuz S45 Terminus Waßmannsdorf towards Spandau S9
Location Flughafen BER Location within Berlin Show map of Berlin Flughafen BER Location within Brandenburg Show map of Brandenburg Flughafen BER Location within Germany Show map of Germany Flughafen BER Location within Europe Show map of Europe

Overview

The station is located in a 3.1-kilometre-long (1.9 mi) tunnel, on the Glasower Damm Ost–Bohnsdorf Süd railway and the Grünauer Kreuz–Berlin Brandenburg Airport railway, both of which branch off the Berlin–Görlitz railway; the Glasower Damm Ost–Bohnsdorf Süd railway also branched off the Berlin outer ring. It is in the municipal territory of Schönefeld, just outside Berlin.

History

Construction of the station began in 2007 and the construction of the tunnels was completed on 25 June 2009. The station was handed over to Deutsche Bahn on 30 March 2010 and has been electrified since 7 June 2011.^[5][6] The public clients agreed to pay a fixed price of 285 million euros, although the actual construction cost was well below that number.^[7] While the airport itself was not in operation, empty trains were running through the tunnels to drive out humidity.^[8] DB ultimately sued the airport for damages due to the unused station. The station was opened for regular passenger traffic on 26 October 2020,^[9] a few days before opening of the airport.

The station is served by Berlin S-Bahn, Regional-Express and InterCity services. The station lies directly under the airport terminal and has six platforms. Two of these are terminating platforms for the S-Bahn lines S45 and S9.^[10] The airport is connected with Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin main station) by the Airport Express (FEX), with a journey time of 29 minutes as well as slower regional and suburban connections. Upgrades on the Berlin Dresden railway will enable faster and more frequent FEX, RE and IC service in 2025. Then two stops at Potsdamer Platz and Berlin Südkreuz will be part of the Airport Express (FEX), which is planned to make the trip to Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin main station) in 20 minutes.^[11] Until then, the Airport Express (FEX) will run via Berlin-Gesundbrunnen and Ostkreuz.^[12]

Deutsche Bahn confirmed in August 2011 that multiple daily Intercity-Express and InterCity trains will connect the airport to Bielefeld, Hannover, Hamburg, Dresden and Wolfsburg. EuroCity trains will also connect to Wrocław and Kraków in Poland and Amsterdam in the Netherlands.^[11][13] After the delayed opening, it is not clear when this will happen. Currently there is only an InterCity train to Dresden and Rostock.

Due to the closure of Terminal 5, the station was renamed Flughafen BER station in December 2023, reflecting it is now the sole station serving the airport.^[4]

Train services

The station is served by the following regular service(s):^[14]

Line	Route		Interval
IC 17	Warnemünde – Rostock – Waren – Neustrelitz – Oranienburg – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Südkreuz – BER Airport – Elsterwerda – Dresden (– Chemnitz)		120 min
ICE 21	Dresden Hbf – Flughafen BER – Berlin Hbf – Eberswalde – Stralsund – Ostseebad Binz		One service Sa towards Binz
FEX	BER Airport – Berlin Ostkreuz	– Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Hbf	30 min
		– Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Alexanderplatz – Berlin Hbf – Charlottenburg	Some nighttime services
RB 22	Königs Wusterhausen – BER Airport – Ludwigsfelde-Struveshof – Saarmund – Potsdam – Pirschheide – Golm – Potsdam Park Sanssouci – Potsdam Charlottenhof – Potsdam Hbf – Potsdam Griebnitzsee		60 min
RB 23	BER Airport – Berlin Ostkreuz – Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Alexanderplatz – Berlin Friedrichstraße – Berlin Hbf – Berlin-Wannsee – Potsdam – Golm		60 min
RB 24	BER Airport – Blankenfelde – Dahlewitz – Rangsdorf – Dabendorf – Zossen – Wünsdorf-Waldstadt		60 min
RB 32	BER Airport – Birkengrund – Ludwigsfelde		60 min
RE 2	BER Airport – Königs Wusterhausen – Cottbus		One nighttime service
RE 8	BER Airport – Berlin Ostkreuz – Berlin Hbf – Berlin-Spandau – Nauen – Neustadt – Wittenberge		60 min
S9	Flughafen BER – Schönefeld – Schöneweide – Warschauer Straße – Ostbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Friedrichstraße – Hauptbahnhof – Zoologischer Garten – Charlottenburg – Westkreuz – Spandau		20 min
S45	Flughafen BER – Schönefeld – Schöneweide – Neukölln – Hermannstraße – Tempelhof – Südkreuz		20 min

After upgrades on the Berlin Dresden railway, the airport express (FEX) to Hauptbahnhof is to run via Südkreuz and Potsdamer Platz.

Gallery

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  Construction work at the entrance of the rail tunnel (July 2010)
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  Airport express train
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  Platform track 2 and sign
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  Map of railway connections at Berlin Brandenburg Airport

See also

• Airport rail link
• List of railway stations in the Berlin area

References

1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2017 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
2. "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
3. Smith, Kevin (26 October 2020). "Berlin Brandenburg Airport railways finally open". International Railway Journal. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
4. berliner-zeitung.de (German) 9 March 2023
5. (in German) Infos on the Berliner Parliament website^{[permanent dead link‍]}
6. (in German) Infos at the Bundestag website
7. ""Festpreis ist Festpreis"".
8. "Im nagelneuen Bahnhof hält kein Zug". Archived from the original on 2017-02-22. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
9. "S9 soll ab 26. Oktober bis zum BER fahren" (in German). RBB. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
10. Berlin Brandenburg Airport station on "S-Bahn Berlin GMBH" website Archived October 14, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
11. Newmann, Peter (27 August 2011). "Schnell zum Flughafen geht es erst ab 2020" [Fast trips to the airport will come only after 2020]. Berliner Zeitung. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
12. "Mit Bus und Bahn schnell und bequem zum BER [Bus and train connections to BER]". vbb.de. 6 December 2019. Archived from the original on 27 January 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
13. "Anbindung an den neuen Flughafen Schönefeld steht". 8 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
14. "Fahrpläne – Bahnhof ✈ Flughafen BER". www.bahnhof.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-06-23.

External links

Media related to Berlin Brandenburg Airport railway station at Wikimedia Commons