Schichauweg station is a station on the

Berlin–Dresden railway The Berlin–Dresden railway is a double track, electrified main line railway in the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony, which was originally built and operated by the ''Berlin-Dresden Railway Company'' (''Berlin-Dresdener Eisenbahn- ...

in the locality of

Lichtenrade Lichtenrade () is a German locality (''Ortsteil'') within the borough (''Bezirk'') of Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of Tempelhof. History The locality was first mentioned in 1375, named ''Lichtenrode' ...

in the

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borough of

Tempelhof-Schöneberg Tempelhof-Schöneberg () is the seventh borough of Berlin, formed in 2001 by merging the former boroughs of Tempelhof and Schöneberg. Situated in the south of the city it shares borders with the boroughs of Mitte and Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in ...

. It is served by

Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn () is a rapid transit railway system in and around Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It has been in operation under this name since December 1930, having been previously called the special tariff area ''Berliner Stadt-, Ring ...

line S2. It was the only new S-Bahn station constructed by the

Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe The (German: 'Berlin Transport Company') is the main public transport company of Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It manages the city's underground railway, tram, bus, replacement services (, EV) and ferry networks, but not the urban r ...

(BVG, Berlin Transportation Company) after it took over the operations of the S-Bahn in West Berlin. It consists of two side platforms, each of which has exits to the south to the streets of Schichauweg and Barnetstraße. Additional northern entrances were opened from both platforms to the streets of Miethepfad and Kettinger Straße on 25 November 1991.

History

The railway line was opened at ground level through undeveloped land in 1875. There was a signalman's house southwest of the present station. The line was raised and placed on an embankment in 1938. 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 ...

(German: ''Güteraußenring'', GAR) was built at the same time; this ran east–west to the north of the present station. A connecting curve ran between the south and the east and an additional curve was built in 1944 from the south to the west. With the building of a new parallel

Berlin outer ring The Berlin outer ring (german: Berliner Außenring, BAR) is a long double track electrified railway, originally built by the German Democratic Republic to bypass West Berlin in preparation for the building of the Berlin Wall during the division o ...

(''Berliner Außenring'', BAR) in 1951, the Outer Freight Ring lost its function and it was only used for local freight. It has since been closed and it was dismantled in the area north of Schichauweg station. In the mid-1980s, the single-track railway bridge that had been built in 1938 over the street was replaced by a new two-track bridge.

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The station is served by S-Bahn line S2.

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* {{cite web, url=http://www.stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de/bahnhof/bahnhof.php?bhf=422, title=Schichauweg station, publisher=stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de, language=de, accessdate=21 May 2015 Berlin S-Bahn stations Buildings and structures in Tempelhof-Schöneberg Railway stations in Germany opened in 1990

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