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Berlin-Lichtenberg is arailway station inBerlin, Germany. It is located on theEastern Railway,Wriezen Railway andBerlin Frankfurter Allee–Berlin-Rummelsburg railway lines in theLichtenberg district. The station is also part of theBerlin S-Bahn andU-Bahn (U5 line) network.
During the division of the city, Lichtenberg with its extended railyards became the central transport facility ofEast Berlin, together withBerlin Ostbahnhof. Today, the station mainly providesregional rail service to the eastern and northern environs.
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The station building marks the southeastern border of the Lichtenberg quarter and is primarily accessible from theWeitlingstraße neighbourhood in the adjacentRummelsburg locality. North of it, theFrankfurter Allee, part of theBundesstraße 1/5 highway, crosses the tracks on the eight-laneLichtenberger Brücke (Lichtenberg Bridge).
Until 2006, international trains toKaliningrad,Warsaw,Kyiv,Minsk,Moscow andSiberia (among othersOmsk,Novosibirsk andKazakhstan) used to stop at Berlin-Lichtenberg. However, after the completion ofBerlin Hauptbahnhof, these trains now stop there.Night trains from all parts of Germany still terminate at this station, however, as do some trains from Warsaw and Kraków.
Lichtenberg was featured in the opening scene of the 2007 movieThe Bourne Ultimatum where it was made to look like aMoscow train station.
Following the opening of the Prussian Eastern Railway line toStrausberg andKüstrin in 1867 and the first sections of theBerlin Ringbahn at nearbyOstkreuz station in 1871, the first marshalling yard at the site was laid out in the 1870s. Passenger trains stopped here from 1881 onwards; the station was renamedLichtenberg-Friedrichsfelde the next year. Long-distance trains, however, ran viaSchlesischer Bahnhof (the present-day Ostbahnhof) to the centralBerlin Stadtbahn line. The Wriezen Railway branch-off was opened in 1898.
After the area was incorporated into Berlin by the 1920Greater Berlin Act, Lichtenberg received access to the electrified S-Bahn commuter rail network in 1928. The subway station, built in theNew Objectivity style according to plans designed byAlfred Grenander, was opened on 21 December 1930.Zentralfriedhof ('Central Cemetery') was then added to the name; from 1935 the station was called "Bahnhof Lichtenberg". DuringWorld War II, it served as anair raid shelter. Train services ceased during theBattle of Berlin on 23 April 1945, but were resumed only a month later underSoviet occupation.
After the war, theDeutsche Reichsbahn authority had Lichtenberg gradually rebuilt as the main train station of East Berlin, providing direct connections with the Ringbahn line and theBerlin outer ring. An additional platform for suburban trains was opened in 1952, accessible via a passenger tunnel above the U-Bahn tracks which has only a ceiling height of 2.25 m (7 ft 5 in).[2] The track system was extensively remodeled with the construction of theLichtenberger Brücke viaduct from 1972 to 1976. A new entrance hall was inaugurated on 15 December 1982.
SinceGerman reunification, Lichtenberg station has declined in importance, mainly with the opening of theBerlin North-South mainline in 2006. Nevertheless, large parts of the facilities have been restored and modernised in recent years.
The station is served by the following service(s):[3]
| Line | Route | Interval |
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| RB 12 | Templin –Löwenberg –Oranienburg –Berlin-Lichtenberg –Berlin Ostkreuz | 60 min |
| RB 24 | Eberswalde – Biesenthal –Bernau –Berlin-Lichtenberg –Berlin Ostkreuz –Schönefeld | |
| RB 25 | Werneuchen –Blumberg –Ahrensfelde –Berlin-Lichtenberg – Berlin Ostkreuz | |
| RB 26 | Berlin-Lichtenberg –Berlin-Mahlsdorf –Müncheberg –Kostrzyn | |
| RB 32 | Oranienburg –Berlin-Lichtenberg –Berlin Ostkreuz –Schönefeld | |
| RB 54 | Berlin-Lichtenberg –Oranienburg –Rheinsberg | One train |
| IRE Kulturzug | Berlin-Lichtenberg –Berlin Ostkreuz –Cottbus –Wrocław Główny | One train Sa+Su |
| TES | Berlin-Lichtenberg –Erkner – Fangschleuse Tesla Süd | One train |
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