S7 is a line on the Berlin S-Bahn. 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 , with the western terminus extended to Friedrichstraße.

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File:EastboundS7HauptBhf.jpg|S7 leaving Berlin Hauptbahnhof en route for Ahrensfelde

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