Not to be confused with Berlin Outer Ring Railway.
Berliner Ringbahn
Ringbahn, Messe Nord ICC station
Overview
Line number
6020 (S-Bahn)
6170 (mainline)
Locale
Berlin, Germany
Service
Route number
200.41
200.42
Technical
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification
S-Bahn: 750 V third rail
main line: 15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary
Route map
Legend
Berlin-Moabit
0.7
Berlin Westhafen
from and to Hauptbahnhof
2.5
Berlin-Wedding
from north-south S-Bahn
4.2
Berlin Gesundbrunnen
former West-Berlin–East-Berlin border
from and to Bernau
and Oranienburg
5.8
Berlin Schönhauser Allee
6.8
Berlin Prenzlauer Allee
7.8
Berlin Greifswalder Straße
9.4
Berlin Landsberger Allee
(flying junction)
10.4
Berlin Storkower Straße
11.7
Berlin Frankfurter Allee
from and to Lichtenberg
to Warschauer Straße (until 2006)
detour during reconstruction
14.2
Berlin Ostkreuz
Stadtbahn
from Warschauer Straße (under construction)
14.3
Treptower Park
to Baumschulenweg
Görlitz Bahn
former East Berlin–West Berlin border
formerly from Görlitzer Bahnhof
15.7
Berlin-Treptow Gbf
Industriebahn Berlin
Neuköllner Schiffahrtskanal
16.5
Berlin Sonnenallee
from Baumschulenweg
17.7
Berlin-Neukölln
18.5
Berlin Hermannstraße
NME to Berlin-Rudow
21.9
Berlin-Tempelhof
to Marienfelde
22.510
22.522
km change −0.012 km
23.2
Berlin Südkreuz Anhalter Bahn,
Anhalt Suburban Line, Dresden railway
from Marienfelde via Tempelhof Rbf
Südringspitzkehre (until 1944)
former main line
24.6
Berlin-Schöneberg
(since 1 March 1933)
Wannsee Railway
Berlin Ebersstraße
(until 1 March 1933)
25.3
Innsbrucker Platz
25.5
Berlin-Wilmersdorf freight yard
26.1
Berlin Bundesplatz
27.4
Berlin Heidelberger Platz
28.6
Berlin Hohenzollerndamm
29.7
Berlin-Halensee
to Grunewald (freight line)
to Charlottenburg
Berlin–Blankenheim
30.4
Berlin Westkreuz
Stadtbahn
from Charlottenburg until 1944
from Grunewald
31.2
Berlin Messe Nord/ICC (Witzleben)
32.4
Berlin-Westend
to Spandau
(flying junction)
from Spandau and Gartenfeld until 1980
34.6
Berlin Jungfernheide
36.7
Berlin Beusselstraße
36.9
0.0
Berlin-Moabit
Source: German railway atlas[1]
The Ringbahn (German for circle railway) is a 37.5 km (23.3 mi) long circle route around Berlin's inner city area, on the Berlin S-Bahn network. Its course is made up of a pair of tracks used by S-Bahn trains and another parallel pair of tracks used by various regional, long distance and freight trains. The S-Bahn lines S41 and S42 provide a closed-loop continuous service without termini. Lines S45, S46 and S47 use a section of the southern and western ring, while lines S8 and S85 use sections of the eastern ring. The combined number of passengers is about 400,000 passengers a day.[2] Due to its distinctive shape, the line is often referred to as the Hundekopf (Dog's Head).[3]
The Ringbahn is bisected by an east–west railway thoroughfare called the Stadtbahn (city railway), which crosses the Ringbahn from Westkreuz (Western Cross) to Ostkreuz (Eastern Cross), forming a Südring (Southern Ring) and a Nordring (Northern Ring). The north-south S-Bahn link (with the North-South S-Bahn-tunnel as its core) divides the Ringbahn into a Westring (Western Ring) and an Ostring (Eastern Ring), crossing at Gesundbrunnen station in the north and both Schöneberg station and Südkreuz in the south. These four sections served as tariff zones of the suburban fare structure before World War II. Over time, these four rings ceased to exist with the removal of track connections. Only at Westkreuz does an original such track remain, used only for utility purposes. At Ostkreuz, a newly-designed bypass provides access to southern branches without having to enter the station. Gesundbrunnen is not a typical crossing, but rather has parallel tracks that curve to the south after leaving the station, allowing trains to run towards Südkreuz.
The approximately 88-square-kilometre (34 sq mi) area encompassed by the Ringbahn comprises the "Berlin A" zone in the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg's fare structure. The Ringbahn also serves as the border for Berlin's low-emission zone, established on 1 January 2008.
^Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. pp. 128–9. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
^"Rekordfahrgastzahlen bei der S-Bahn" (in German). Deutsche Bahn AG.
^"AUS DER GESCHICHTE DER BERLINER RINGBAHN Der "Hundekopf" entsteht wieder" (in German). Berliner Zeitung. 2001-09-13. pp. S 07.
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