Berlin Wuhlheide station

Berlin Wuhlheide
Through station
Left: station building and platform, right: the park train platform
Location	Am Bahnhof, Wuhlheide, Berlin Germany
Coordinates	52°28′8″N 13°33′12″E / 52.46889°N 13.55333°E / 52.46889; 13.55333Coordinates: 52°28′8″N 13°33′12″E / 52.46889°N 13.55333°E / 52.46889; 13.55333
Line(s)	Berlin–Guben (KBS 200.3) Berlin outer ring (platform dismantled) Park Railway (KBS 12299)
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	6899
DS100 code	BWHH
IBNR	8089097
Category	5
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1877
Previous names	Sadowa
Services
Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station Karlshorst toward Ostkreuz S3 Köpenick toward Erkner

Wuhlheide station is a station of the Berlin S-Bahn on the Berlin-Frankfurt (Oder) railway (“Lower Silesian–Markish Railway”). It is located at the junction of the line with the Berlin outer ring in the district of Köpenick. In addition to the platform for line S3 of the S-Bahn, it also includes the terminus of the Berlin Park Railway (Berliner Parkeisenbahn) to the south of the S-Bahn line, which connects to a recreational area. The station is not to be confused with the now abandoned Wuhlheide marshalling yard on the outer ring.

In the winter of 1877/1878, the station was opened at a crossing point with several forest roads and tracks. South of it, at the confluence of the Wuhle with the Spree, there was a tourist restaurant called "Sadowa"–after Sadová, the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War–which gave the station its name. A pair of tracks was added to the line for suburban trains in 1902. Following the upgrade, the station was also extended and it was given typical Berlin platform canopies and a glazed, “greenhouse” entranceway (Gewächshausgang). In 1929, the station was renamed Wuhlheide, after a forest area of the same name, which extends around the station.

The Outer Freight Ring (Güteraußenring, GAR), which crossed the main line on a bridge structure, was built immediately west of the S-Bahn station in 1940. After the war, the S-Bahn tracks were dismantled, but one track was rebuilt two years later. From July 1948 diesel railcars were used to operate suburban services running from Kaulsdorf over the so-called VnK Railway and the Berlin outer ring to Grunau. A station was established at the crossing with the Berlin-Frankfurt (Oder) line for transfers, but no direct route was built between the two platforms. Since the service passed through an almost uninhabited area, the service was discontinued after just one year. The platform on the outer ring was later demolished. In 1951, the Outer freight ring was replaced by the Berlin outer ring, which takes a similar, in places identical, route in this area.