Berlin Frankfurter Allee–Berlin-Rummelsburg railway
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| Line length: | 2.7/1.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voltage: | 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| State: | Berlin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Berlin Frankfurter Allee–Berlin-Rummelsburg railway is an electrified line in Berlin. It connects the Ringbahn with the Berlin-Betriebsbahnhof Rummelsburg station. Except for a short section, the line has two tracks. It was originally created as a freight line, but it is now used primarily used for the transfer of empty passenger trains that are maintained at the Rummelsburg depot. The track is also linked by a double-track line from the Ringbahn from the south to the Berlin-Lichtenberg station.
The line branches to the east from the long-distance tracks of the Ringbahn at Berlin Frankfurter Allee junction, about 400 metres south of Frankfurter Allee station after the overpass over Gürtelstraße. From there to Rummelsburg, it runs exclusively on embankments, with a total of nine overpasses over roads, paths and two other railway lines.
After about 600 metres, the line, which is elevated on a bridge over the Pfarrstraße, reaches the B1 signalbox at the west end of Berlin-Lichtenberg station. Previously, there was a signalbox at Gabelung junction. Here it intersects with a double-track and electrified line, which is 1.9 km long, coming from the south from Ostkreuz and branching from the Ringbahn at Ostkreuz Nord junction and then it runs to the east to Lichtenberg station. Both links have two tracks.
The line to Rummelsburg extends further to the southeast on the northeastern edge of Victoriastadt. It crosses the Eastern Railway and several streets in the Nöldnerplatze area. Subsequently, it crosses the S-Bahn and the most long-distance tracks of the line to Frankfurt on a bridge. This bridge is the only single-track section of the line. South of the bridge, the track connects with a track that connects the Stadtbahn to the southern part of the Rummelsburg yard. The line runs for another kilometre and ends in the central part of the yard. There is no direct connection with the VnK Railway, which branches east in Rummelsburg.
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