Berlin Potsdamer Platz is a railway station in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. It is completely underground and situated underneath the Potsdamer Platz

Potsdamer Platz

Potsdamer Platz is an important public square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin, Germany, lying about one kilometre south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag , and close to the southeast corner of the Tiergarten park...

 in central Berlin. Regional and S-Bahn

Berlin S-Bahn

The Berlin S-Bahn is a rapid transit system in and around Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It consists of 15 lines and is integrated with the mostly underground U-Bahn to form the backbone of Berlin's rapid transport system...

 services call at the station.

History

The first station at Potsdamer Platz was the Potsdamer Bahnhof

Berlin Potsdamer Bahnhof

The Potsdamer Bahnhof is a former railway terminus in Berlin, Germany. It was located at Potsdamer Platz, about 1 km south of the Brandenburg Gate, and kick-started the transformation of Potsdamer Platz from an area of quiet villas near the south-east corner of the Tiergarten into the bustling...

terminus

Terminal Station

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, which was closed on 27 September 1945 due to war damage. The S-Bahn station, situated in the Nord-Süd-Tunnel, was situated directly under the Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...

 and became a ghost station

Ghost station

Ghost stations is the usual English translation for the German word Geisterbahnhöfe. This term was used to describe certain stations on Berlin's U-Bahn and S-Bahn metro networks that were closed during the period of Berlin's division during the Cold War...

 between 1961 and 1989.

The station was extensively remodeled and rebuilt in the 1990s.

U-Bahn

The station also has the line of the Berlin U-Bahn

Berlin U-Bahn

The Berlin is a rapid transit railway in Berlin, the capital city of Germany, and is a major part of the public transport system of that city. Opened in 1902, the serves 173 stations spread across ten lines, with a total track length of , about 80% of which is underground...

 calling at a subterranean platform.
It was build by the great architect A.Grenander in 1902. But after 5 years another platform opened just 180m to the southwest at Leipziger Platz.
Until 1923 the station was known also under the name Leipziger Platz. From then the name was Potsdamer Platz.

For a brief time during 1991, the site was served by Kemperplatz station, slightly to the north-west and on the M-Bahn

M-Bahn

The M-Bahn or Magnetbahn was an elevated Maglev train line operating in Berlin, Germany in 1991. The line was 1.6 km in length, and featured three stations, two of which were newly constructed...

. Following reunification, the M-Bahn was removed to allow U-Bahn U2 to be reinstated.

Train services

The station is served by the following services:

• intercity service (InterConnex) Warnemünde - Rostock - Neustrelitz - Berlin - Leipzig
• regional express (RE 3) Stralsund - Greifswald - Pasewalk - Angermünde - Berlin - Elsterwerda
• regional express (RE 3) Schwedt - Angermünde - Berlin - Wünsdorf-Waldstadt
• regional express (RE 4) Wismar - Schwerin - Ludwigslust - Wittenberge - Berlin - Ludwigsfelde
• regional express (RE 5) Rostock - Neustrelitz - Berlin - Jüterbog - Lutherstadt Wittenberg
• regional express (RE 5) Stralsund - Neustrelitz - Berlin - Jüterbog - Falkenberg (Elster)

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Trivia

The long-distance station is, strictly speaking, not a station but just a stop, as it lacks the points

Railroad switch

A railroad switch, turnout or [set of] points is a mechanical installation enabling railway trains to be guided from one track to another at a railway junction....

required to be classified as a station under German law.

External links

• Station information (S-Bahn)