S2 (Berlin)
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| image = S2 nach Buch mit BR 481 am Bahnhof Karow.jpg
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| alt = Boxy red-and-yellow train next to a platform
| caption = An S2 arrives at Karow in 2023
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| locale = Berlin
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| stock = DBAG Class 481
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S2 is a line on the Berlin S-Bahn.{{cite web | title = S-Bahn Network Map | publisher = S-Bahn Berlin GmbH | date = 2008-06-27 | url = http://www.s-bahn-berlin.de/pdf/s_bahn_netz.pdf | format = pdf | accessdate = 2009-07-07}} It operates from Bernau to Blankenfelde over:
- the Berlin-Szczecin railway, opened on 1 August 1842 and electrified on 8 August 1924,
- the Nord-Süd-Tunnel, opened on 28 May 1936 from Humboldthain to Unter den Linden and on 6 November 1939 to Anhalter Bahnhof and Priesterweg
- the Berlin–Dresden railway, opened on 17 June 1875 and electrified on 15 May 1933.
Since becoming a numbered route in 1984, the S2's line colour is green.{{cite web|last1=Booth|first1=Cameron|title=Historical Maps: West and East Berlin, 1984|url=https://transitmap.net/west-east-berlin-1984|website=Transit Maps|publisher=Cameron Booth|access-date=18 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518234739/https://transitmap.net/west-east-berlin-1984|archive-date=18 May 2023|location=Portland|language=en-us|date=10 March 2012}}
Service history
The S2 was created along with the S1 and S3 on 9 January 1984, when the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) took over the S-Bahn network from the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn in West Berlin: the S2 initially ran between Lichtenrade and Anhalter Bahnhof, before being extended northwards to Gesundbrunnen on 1 May 1984, and Frohnau on 1 October 1984.{{cite web|title=How the S-Bahn got its numbers|url=https://sbahn.berlin/aktuelles/artikel/wie-die-s-bahn-zu-ihren-nummern-kam#c21295|website=S-Bahn Berlin|publisher=Deutsche Bahn|access-date=18 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518233609/https://sbahn.berlin/aktuelles/artikel/wie-die-s-bahn-zu-ihren-nummern-kam#c21295|archive-date=18 May 2023|location=Berlin|language=de|date=9 June 2021}}
In 1990, the S1 replaced the S2 between Gesundbrunnen and Frohnau.{{cite web|title=Berliner Nahverkehrsnetz – Schnellbahnnetz|url=https://file1.hpage.com/003497/13/bilder/s_u-bahn_netz_199091.jpg|website=Berliner Linienchronik|publisher=Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe|access-date=19 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230519002335/https://file1.hpage.com/003497/13/bilder/s_u-bahn_netz_199091.jpg|archive-date=19 May 2023|location=Berlin|language=de|date=November 1990}}