Berlin Nordbahnhof

Berlin Nordbahnhof (Berlin Stettiner Bahnhof)
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S-Bahnhof Nordbahnhof
Location	Mitte, Berlin, Berlin Germany
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Station code	0532
DS100 code	BNB
Category	4

Berlin Nordbahnhof (formerly Stettiner Bahnhof) is a railway station in the Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn and local bus and tram lines.

In 1842, the Stettiner Bahnhof opened as terminus of the railway line to then Pommeranian city of Stettin (Polish: Szczecin, since 1945 a part of Poland), connecting Berlin with the Stettin sea port, later also important for reaching the holiday resorts on the Baltic Sea (so-called Pomerania Riviera or more colloquial Berliners' bath tub). As the number of passengers increased rapidly, the station on Invalidenstraße became one of Berlin's busiest railway termini and had to be enlarged several times.

1877, the Stettiner Bahnhof also became the Berlin passenger train terminus of the Preußische Nordbahn (Prussian Northern Railway) to Stralsund via Neu-Strelitz, and later also to .

A special suburban station was built to the west of the mainline terminal, serving three suburban lines, to Bernau on the Berlin-Szczecin railway, to Oranienburg on the North Railway, and to Velten via Berlin-Tegel on the Kremmen Railway.

In 1939, these three suburban lines were paired with the three southern suburban lines to form three transversal lines, by means of the North-South S-Bahn link with a tunnel from Stettiner Bahnhof to Anhalter Bahnhof under the Berlin city centre. As part of opening of the first phase, the northern section, the present-day underground station of the S-Bahn opened on 28 May 1936. The new underground station replaced the former suburban railway station, whose railhead building can still be seen west of the Nordbahnhof on Zinnowitzer Straße. The new, underground, S-Bahn station was located East of the main building, with the tracks crossing from the west to the east under the approaches of the mainline tracks.