Berlin-Lichtenrade station

Berlin-Lichtenrade
Through station
Lichtenrade station
Location	Lichtenrade, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin Germany
Coordinates	52°23′14″N 13°23′47″E / 52.387146°N 13.396526°E / 52.387146; 13.396526Coordinates: 52°23′14″N 13°23′47″E / 52.387146°N 13.396526°E / 52.387146; 13.396526
Line(s)	Berlin–Dresden suburban railway (KBS 200.2)
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	3703
DS100 code	BLRD
IBNR	8089070
Category	5
History
Opened	1 June 1883
Services
Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station Mahlow toward Blankenfelde S2 Schichauweg toward Bernau

Berlin-Lichtenrade station is a station on the Berlin–Dresden railway in the locality of Lichtenrade in the Berlin borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. It is served by Berlin S-Bahn line S2.

The railway line from Berlin to Dresden was opened on 17 June 1875. Eight years later, a station was built the still single-track line at the village of Lichtenrade, which was opened on 1 June 1883. The 30 metre-long gravel platform was located south of today's Bahnhofstrasse (“station street”). The Royal Prussian Military Railway ran on its western edge from 1875, but it was dismantled after the First World War in 1919.

In 1892, a second track was built and the two-storey, yellow brick station building was built north of Bahnhofstrasse. The station offices were on the ground floor of the unadorned functional building and upstairs there was the stationmaster’s apartment. A house for rail officials was built to its north in the same style and between the two there was single-storey building with commercial space and toilets.

The side platforms were replaced by a central platform at its current location in 1909/10. A loading track and a siding to a malt house were built on the east side.

A pedestrian tunnel was built near the south end of the platform so that passengers could reach the trains even from a section of the contiguous streets of Bahnhofstrasse and Prinzessinnenstraße that was enclosed with barrier rails; this branched to the two streets. The stairs from the streets were enclosed in protective shelters built in "greenhouse architecture", signs with the station’s name of Lichtenrade were attached to the doors. Tickets were sold and ticket inspection took place at a centrally-located office in the third protective shelter at the entrance to the underpass to the platform.

The platform roofing was supported by sixteen central pillars. A service room, a waiting room and a toilet block were built on the platform. A kiosk was added in 1925 and a "splinter bunker" (Splitterbunker, that is a small air raid shelter giving some protection against fragments) was added during the Second World War. The platform height was increased by 20 cm in 1939 as part of the electrification of the line with a side-mounted third rail. Electric S-Bahn services began on 15 May 1939.