Berlin-Rummelsburg Betriebsbahnhof station

Betriebsbahnhof Berlin-Rummelsburg
Depot/S-Bahn station
Facilities of the Betriebsbahnhof Berlin-Rummelsburg
Location	Rummelsburg, Lichtenberg, Berlin Germany
Coordinates	52°29′38″N 13°29′52″E / 52.49389°N 13.49778°E / 52.49389; 13.49778Coordinates: 52°29′38″N 13°29′52″E / 52.49389°N 13.49778°E / 52.49389; 13.49778
Line(s)	Berlin–Guben (KBS 200.3) Berlin Frankfurter Allee–Berlin-Rummelsburg VnK Railway
Platforms	2 (S-Bahn)
Other information
Station code	545
DS100 code	BRGB (depot) BRB (S-Bahn)
IBNR	8089006
Category	4
History
Opened	1879 (marshalling yard) 5 January 1948 (opening of S-Bahn station)
Traffic
Passengers	5,400
Services
Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station Rummelsburg toward Ostkreuz S3 Karlshorst toward Erkner

BRB (S-Bahn)

Berlin-Rummelsburg Betriebsbahnhof station is a former freight yard, currently used as a Betriebsbahnhof (“operations station”), in the suburb of Rummelsburg in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin. It is primarily used as a depot for the storage and maintenance of passenger train sets used for long-distance traffic. In particular, InterCity Express trains terminating in Berlin are stored there. Deutsche Bahn officially call the station Berlin-Rummelsburg, but it is not to be confused with the more westerly Berlin-Rummelsburg S-Bahn station. The S-Bahn section of the precinct is called S-Bahnhof Betriebsbahnhof Berlin-Rummelsburg (Berlin-Rummelsburg operations station S-Bahn station), which is classifies as a Haltepunkt (a “halt”, that is it has no sets of points). It is served by S-Bahn line S3.

The station is located on the Berlin-Frankfurt (Oder) railway (“Lower Silesian–Markish Railway”) between the S-Bahn stations of Rummelsburg and Karlshorst. The northern pair of tracks is used by S-Bahn services, while the remaining tracks serve regional and mainline services and are not connected to the station. To the west of the station, the VnK Railway (which once connected to Kaulsdorf) branches from the northeast and crosses the S-Bahn station over a long iron truss bridge. A rail link from the Ringbahn also connects in this area. In the southeast there was an electrified line for freight traffic, the so-called "Bulls Railway", which connected to the industrial area in Oberschoeneweide until the mid-1990s.