Altglienicke station


Altglienicke is a railway station on the Grünauer Kreuz–Berlin Brandenburg Airport railway in the Treptow-Köpenick district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn line and. It was opened in 1962 for the S-Bahn. Already since 1940 it had existed as an operational station at the Berlin Outer Freight Ring at this point, which, after the Second World War between 1948 and 1958, also served passenger traffic.

History

On 1 January 1940, the station was initially opened as a pure operational station at the Berlin Outer Freight Ring. Until 1948, no passenger traffic took place here, only when a halt was opened on 26 July. This was initially in operation until 21 March 1951. The second operating time began on 22 May 1955 and ended on 1 June 1958.
Since 1959 it was planned to open an S-Bahn line in the direction of Berlin Schönefeld Airport. Since a motorway junction was planned near the station, the route runs south of the station in a slight arc on the left hand side of the highway section. On 26 February 1962, the new station on the route to the airport went into operation. The roofless island platform had a small reception building with ticket office.
Previously, the section was a single-track railway only. The second track was taken in operation on 29 June 1987, after some reconstruction work took place.
Today, the station has received a tactile paving and is accessible via an elevator. The station has an exit at the northern end only.