Berlin Brandenburg Airport railway station
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The Berlin Brandenburg Airport station ( ground internally: Berlin airport BER) is located in the Brandenburg municipality of Schönefeld underground station of the same airport by S -Bahn, regional and mainline rail connection.
Location
The station is situated directly below the airport terminal and has six platform tracks. Of the three central platforms serve two of the regional and mainline railway (405 meters in length, passage mode) and one of the S -Bahn ( 152.5 meters in length, operating as a terminal station of the West). The route leads her to the west of Berlin outer ring on the airport approach, immersed between the two runways in the ground now and crosses under the so-called mid-field area with terminal and train station. The mainline tracks remain committed to continuing to the east. After the re-emergence of a reversing facility closes at. The tracks then extend south of the former airport terminal route ( former Henschel works railway ) to the Görlitz line and tie in the amount Bohnsdorf / Grunau in this one. Thus, a transport connection both from the west, from the pickup and Dresden railway ago, as well as from the east, from King Wusterhausen and from Berlin via the Görlitz line is guaranteed.
History
The construction of the station began in February 2007. Tunnel and trough structures were mostly built in the protection of groundwater drawdown as reinforced concrete structures ( white tank ) in -situ concrete. On 25 June 2009 Topping-out ceremony was celebrated. The completed shell was passed March 30, 2010 to the German track for further expansion. The station is electrically drivable since 7 June 2011.
The station and its ties with the West were put into operation on 30 October 2011. The Ostanbindung that was planned detected only in early 2010, followed by 2012. Federal Railway Office announced on June 2, 2012 the tunnel for train travel freely without passenger. An operation with persons is possible only after acceptance of the fire alarm systems of terminal and train station.
The shell of the rail link (tunnel and train station) was commissioned by the 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 much lower. This cost limits were maintained despite supplementary requirements for smoke extraction.
The federal government expected in 2007 with 10.6 million train passengers per year, including 1.8 million in the S-Bahn.
Connection
From commissioning of the airport
The focus of the serving lines is the connection to Berlin and at Brandenburg. The regional express line RE9 will connect the airport as an airport Express in 29 minutes by the Berlin Central Station. In addition, there will be a total of six Fernzugpaare according to or from Hanover, Hamburg, Münster, Amsterdam, Krakow and the Ruhr.
The opening date of the station is created on the date of commissioning of the airport.
Future
Probably from 2017Vorlage: Future / in 3 years with at least one year delayed completion of the station Ostkreuz new connections to be possible. The S -Bahn line S9 wrong then again at the Berlin metropolitan railway, but without stop in east cross. A new direct connection, there will be over the top regional platform in Lichtenberg east cross and the station with the RB24 in the direction of Eberswalde. Original plans stipulated that about the same time to the city of Berlin created a fast connection to the Berlin inner city with the restoration of the long-distance tracks of the Dresden railway. The RE9 and regional trains on the Berlin Stadtbahn should be replaced by a purely commercial supplementary charge Airport Express at 15- minute intervals. After delays in the planning of the reconstruction of Dresden's web is (as of end of 2011) but not with their re- commissioning before the year 2020Vorlage: expected future / in 5 years. The planned line concept after completion of the Dresden railway looks like this: