Wustermark railway station

Wustermark
Wustermark station
Location	Wustermark, Brandenburg Germany
Coordinates	52°33′05″N 12°56′43″E / 52.55139°N 12.94528°E / 52.55139; 12.94528Coordinates: 52°33′05″N 12°56′43″E / 52.55139°N 12.94528°E / 52.55139; 12.94528
Line(s)	Berlin outer ring Berlin–Lehrte railway (KBS 202) connecting to the Berlin outer ring (Jüterbog)–Priort–Nauen
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	6957
DS100 code	BWUS
Category	5
History
Opened	1871
Traffic
Passengers	51200
Services
Preceding station   Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn   Following station Buschow toward Rathenow RE 4 Elstal toward Jüterbog Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Terminus RB 13 Elstal toward Berlin Jungfernheide Terminus RB 21 Priort toward Berlin Friedrichstraße

Wustermark station is a railway station in the town of Wustermark in the Havelland region of the German state of Brandenburg, to the west of Berlin. The station is located on the Berlin–Lehrte railway and is connected with the Jüterbog–Nauen railway (originally built as part of a freight bypass), part of which became part of the Berlin outer ring in the 1950s. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.

The station is located at the km 30.5 of the Berlin–Lehrte railway on the northern outskirts of Wustermark, about 500 metres north of the centre of the town. About two kilometres to its east the Berlin outer ring crosses the Lehrte railway. Four kilometres to the east, beyond the outer ring, is the Wustermark marshalling yard (Rangierbahnhof), which is often colloquially referred to as "Wustermark", but it is not to be confused with Wustermark station.

The station was opened in 1871 with the Lehrte railway. The section of the Jüterbog–Nauen railway from Nauen to Wildpark (part of an early freight bypass railway around Berlin), which used part of the Lehrte railway through Wustermark station, was opened in 1902, making the station into a small junction. The large Wustermark marshalling yard to the east of Wustermark went into operations in 1909. In order to cope with the traffic to the new yard, the Lehrte railway from Spandau to Wustermark was quadrupled and the railway between Wustermark and Nauen was duplicated as far as the Berlin–Hamburg Railway.

After the Second World War, passenger services on the Lehrte railway to West Berlin was first partially and later completely stopped. Both the Lehrte railway and the Jüterbog–Nauen railway were reduced to only one track to provide material for war reparations. A section of the Berlin outer ring, which was built as a ring around West Berlin, was built on a viaduct over the Lehrte Railway near the station in 1953 and the two lines were connected via connecting curves. Wustermark became a point for transferring between the passenger trains on the outer ring and the Lehrte railway. In 1983, the Berlin outer ring and the two branches from the ring to Wustermark station and the Wustermark marshalling yard were electrified. Subsequently, electric and diesel locomotives were exchanged at Wustermark station on express trains between Berlin and Stendal.