S8 (Berlin)
{{Short description|Train line of the Berlin S-Bahn}}
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S8 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 | accessdate = 4 June 2010 }} It operates from Wildau to Birkenwerder over:
- the Görlitz line, opened in 1866 and electrified in 1929,
- the Ring line, completed in 1877 and electrified in 1926,
- the Outer ring, completed on 22 November 1952 and electrified for the S-Bahn in 1962,
- and a short section of the Prussian Northern line, opened on 10 July 1877 and electrified on 8 August 1925.
Service history
The S8 was created on 2 June 1991, as a slightly shorter replacement of the Lime Green route of the East Berlin S-Bahn between Bernau bei Berlin and Grünau (via the eastern part of the Ringbahn).{{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}}
In popular culture
An S8 train to Zeuthen appears in the opening frames of Pet Shop Boys' music video for the single Leaving from the album Elysium (2012).
Gallery
Bahnhof Berlin-Grünau S8 2006.jpg|S8 at Grünau
Berlin - S-Bahnhof Plänterwald (7713983966).jpg|S8 at Plänterwald
Db-s-bahn-berlin-s8-br-823635.jpg|S8 at Treptower Park
References
{{reflist|30em}}
External links
- {{Official website|www.s-bahn-berlin.de/fahrplanundnetz/linie/s8/12}} {{in lang|de}}
{{Public transport in Berlin}}