S8 is a line on the Berlin S-Bahn. 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).

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).

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Bahnhof Berlin-Grünau S8 2006.jpg|S8 at Grünau

S8 Schönfließ bahnsteig.jpg|Train of DBAG Class 483/484 at Schönfließ station on S8

Berlin - S-Bahnhof Plänterwald (7713983966).jpg|S8 at Plänterwald

Db-s-bahn-berlin-s8-br-823635.jpg|S8 at Treptower Park

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References

fi:S8 (Berliinin S-Bahn)