S7 (Berlin)
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S7 is a line on the Berlin S-Bahn.{{Cite web| title = S-Bahn Network Map | publisher = S-Bahn Berlin GmbH | date = 27 June 2008 | url = http://www.s-bahn-berlin.de/pdf/s_bahn_netz.pdf | accessdate = 7 July 2009}} It operates from Ahrensfelde to Potsdam over:
- the Wriezen Railway, completed on 1 May 1898 and electrified to Marzahn in 1976, to Mehrower Allee in 1980 and to Ahrensfelde in 1982,
- a section of the Outer ring, completed in the early 1940s as part of the Outer freight ring and electrified in 1976,
- a section of the Prussian Eastern line, opened on 1 October 1866 and electrified on 6 November 1928,
- the Stadtbahn, opened on 7 February 1882 and electrified on 11 June 1928,
- a section of the Berlin-Blankenheim line, opened west of Grunewald in 1879 and further east in 1882 and electrified in 1928 and
- a section of the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg line, opened in 1838 and electrified in 1928.
Service history
The S7 was created on 2 June 1991, replacing the Red route of the East Berlin S-Bahn between Alexanderplatz and {{stn|Ahrensfelde}}, with the western terminus extended to Friedrichstraße.{{cite web|title=How the S-Bahn got its numbers|url=https://sbahn.berlin/aktuelles/artikel/wie-die-s-bahn-zu-ihren-nummern-kam#c21296|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#c21296|archive-date=18 May 2023|location=Berlin|language=de|date=9 June 2021}}{{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}}
Gallery
File:EastboundS7HauptBhf.jpg|S7 leaving Berlin Hauptbahnhof en route for Ahrensfelde
References
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{{Public transport in Berlin}}