Berlin-Schönholz railway station () is a

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. It is located on the

Berlin Northern Railway The Berlin Northern Railway () is a 223-kilometre-long main line (railway), main line route, that runs from Berlin via Neustrelitz and Neubrandenburg to Stralsund on the Baltic Sea coast. Nowadays, long-distance and regional traffic on the Nord ...

(''Berliner Nordbahn'') line in the district of

Reinickendorf Reinickendorf () is the twelfth borough of Berlin. It encompasses the northwest of the city area, including the Berlin Tegel Airport, Lake Tegel, spacious settlements of detached houses as well as housing estates like Märkisches Viertel. Subd ...

, though it is named after the adjacent Schönholz quarter of the neighbouring

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district. From here, the

Kremmen Railway The Kremmen Railway () is a line in northern Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany. It branches off the Prussian Northern Railway in the Berlin district of Reinickendorf, north of Schönholz station (formerly ''Schönholz-Reinickendorf'') and then pa ...

branch line leads to

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and

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. The station is served by

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trains and local

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lines, and is protected as a listed monument.

History

When the station opened on 10 July 1877 with the name ''Reinickendorf,'' it initially only had one outdoor platform. In 1878 the station was renamed ''Schönholz (Reinickendorf)'' and, in 1884, it was again renamed, this time to ''Schönholz-Reinickendorf''. The single outer platform was replaced by a central platform in 1893. Simultaneously, the Kremmen Railway was opened, making the station a transfer station. A reception building was added in 1896. Between 1901 and 1903, the station was rebuilt to make way for a new road. During that time, new tracks were built for the Northern Railway, separating it from the Kremmen Railway. Subsequently the station was only serviced by suburban trains. From 5 June 1925, the first electric trains operated on this route. As a result, the station became an

station. The Kremmen Railway was electrified two years later, and mixed operation with steam locomotives came to an end. In May 1938, the station was renamed ''Berlin-Schönholz''. In 1945, there was no traffic for several weeks due to the ongoing war. On 9 January 1984 management of the West Berlin S-Bahn was transferred from the

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to the BVG. Both routes using the station were shut down and the station was closed. It was reopened on 1 October 1984 to serve the route to Frohnau. In 1995, the Kremmen Railway was also reopened, initially only to Tegel, and since 1998 also to Hennigsdorf.

Services

The station is serviced by the suburban train lines S1, S25 and S85, as well as the bus lines 150, 327 and N52.

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Station information
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