Altglienicke is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

on the Grünauer Kreuz–Berlin Brandenburg Airport railway in the

Treptow-Köpenick Treptow-Köpenick () is the ninth borough of Berlin, Germany, formed in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by merging the former boroughs of Treptow and Köpenick. Overview Among Berlin's boroughs it is the largest by area with the lowest popul ...

district of

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. It is served by

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lines

S45 S45 may refer to: Aviation * Blériot-SPAD S.45, a French biplane airliner * SABCA S-45bis, a Belgian bomber * Short S.45, a British biplane trainer * Short S.45 Seaford, a British flying boat * Sikorsky S-45, a proposed American flying boat ...

and S9. It opened for passenger service in 1962, but existed as an operational station on the

Berlin Outer Freight Ring The Berlin Outer Freight Ring (German: ''Güteraußenring'', GAR) was a planned ring railway around the city of Berlin, Germany. The first sections of a line to the west of the city were built in the early 20th century as part of the Brandenburg By ...

since 1940.

History

On 1 January 1940, the station was initially opened as a pure operational station on the

. Until 1948, no passenger service stopped here; a halt was opened on 26 July of that year, and was operational until 21 March 1951. The second operating period lasted between 22 May 1955 and 1 June 1958. Since 1959, it was planned to open an S-Bahn line in the direction of

Berlin Schönefeld Airport Berlin Schönefeld Airport () (formerly ) was the secondary international airport of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It was located southeast of Berlin near the town of Schönefeld in the state of Brandenburg and bordered Berlin's southern bou ...

. Since a motorway junction was planned near the station, the route runs south of the station in a slight arc on the left hand side of the highway section. On 26 February 1962, the new station on the route to the airport went into operation. The roofless

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

had a small reception building with a ticket office. Previously, this section of the line was single-track. The second track was put into operation on 29 June 1987, after some reconstruction work took place. Today, the station has received

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and is accessible via an

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. The station's only entrance is at the northern end. Berlin Altglienicke S-Bahn asv2021-03 img2

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Altglienicke Altglienicke (, literally ''Old Glienicke'') is a locality (''Ortsteil'') of Berlin in the borough (''Bezirk'') of Treptow-Köpenick. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of Treptow. History The village of ''Glinik'' was first mentioned in ...

Railway stations in Treptow-Köpenick Railway stations in Germany opened in 1940