Berlin Beusselstraße station

Berlin Beusselstraße
Through station
Beusselstraße S-Bahn station (left) with adjacent long-distance line and freight yard (right)
Location	Beusselbrücke, Moabit, Berlin Germany
Coordinates	52°32′04″N 13°19′46″E / 52.534444°N 13.329444°E / 52.534444; 13.329444Coordinates: 52°32′04″N 13°19′46″E / 52.534444°N 13.329444°E / 52.534444; 13.329444
Line(s)	Berlin Ringbahn
Platforms	2 (S-Bahn)
Other information
Station code	7726
DS100 code	BBEU
IBNR	8089118
Category	4
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 May 1894 19 December 1999
Closed	18 September 1980
Services
Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station Jungfernheide One-way operation S41 Westhafen toward Ringbahn (clockwise) Westhafen One-way operation S42 Jungfernheide toward Ringbahn (counter-clockwise)

Beusselstraße is a Berlin S-Bahn station in the Moabit district in the Mitte borough of Berlin. It is located at the Beussel bridge, which carries the street of Beusselstrasse over the Berlin Ringbahn. It is served by the S-Bahn lines S41 and S42.

From the opening of the first section of the Verbindungsbahn (connecting railway, later called the Ringbahn, "Ring Railway") on 1 January 1872, there was a station that was a little further to the east than the current Moabit freight yard. This marked the beginning of the connecting railway and is still the zero point of the line chainage (distance marks) applied to the Ringbahn. Due to the growing patronage, the station was completely rebuilt in the early 1890s. Passenger and freight traffic were separated. The new Beusselstraße station was opened for passenger services at the Beussel bridge on 1 May 1894 and Moabit station became a freight yard only on that day.

The form of Beusselstraße station could be described as a typical Ringbahn stations. The station had an island platform and two entrances. One was at the end of the platform at the Beussel bridge and the other was at the centre of the platform and had an entrance from the north side. It had a roof supported by a row of iron trusses. The station building was built on the bridge in Gothic Revival style. In the first decades it was served by trains hauled by steam locomotives. As part of the "Great electrification", it was served by new railcars of the “Stadtbahn” class (ET 165) from 1 February 1929.

The Nazis’ plan of the 1930s to transform Berlin into World Capital Germania would have included extensive work on the northern Ringbahn. All suburban traffic on this section of the Ringbahn would have been moved from the outside to the inside of the Ringbahn to be consistent with the rest of the line. Moreover, a so-called "long-distance S-Bahn" was planned between the new Northern station (Nordbahnhof, between Westhafen and Wedding) and Siemensstadt-Fürstenbrunn. Trains on this line would have stopped at an island platform at Beusselstraße station. North of the suburban lines the freight yard would have also been extended to supply the Berlin wholesale market at Westhafen. The outbreak of the Second World War prevented the execution of these plans.