Berlin Storkower Straße station

Storkower Straße
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Plattform view
Location Storkower Straße, Fennpfuhl
Hermann-Blankenstein-Straße, Prenzlauer Berg
Pankow, Berlin, Berlin
Germany
Coordinates 52°31′26″N 13°27′52″E / 52.52389°N 13.46444°E / 52.52389; 13.46444Coordinates: 52°31′26″N 13°27′52″E / 52.52389°N 13.46444°E / 52.52389; 13.46444
Owned by DB Netz
Operated by DB Station&Service
Line(s) Ringbahn
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Train operators S-Bahn Berlin
Connections
156 240
Other information
Station code 6042
DS100 codeBSTO[1]
IBNR8089041
Category4[2]
Fare zone Berlin A
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 4 May 1881 (1881-05-04)
Services
Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station
One-way operation
S 41
toward Ringbahn (clockwise)
One-way operation
S 42
toward Ringbahn (counter-clockwise)
toward Birkenwerder
S 8
toward Zeuthen
toward Pankow
S 85
toward Grünau
Location
Storkower Straße
Location within Berlin

Storkower Straße is a railway station in the Prenzlauer Berg locality of Berlin, close to the locality's border with Fennpfuhl. Located at the Ringbahn it is served by the S-Bahn lines S 41, S 42, S 8 and S 85.

History

The station was opened in 1881 under the name of Zentralviehhof, as the vast area south of the station then was the site of Berlin's central slaughterhouse that received animals by rail here. An over 400-metre (0.25 mi) long pedestrian bridge (called the Langer Jammer, i.e. "Long Misery") crossed the processing plant connecting the station with the Friedrichshain residential areas.

The northern entrance to the station on Storkower Straße

The station was renamed in the 1970s, while in 1991 the slaughterhouse finally closed. The notorious bridge except for about 150 m (490 ft) above the tracks was demolished in 2002. The remaining portion of the bridge, which stretches from Storkower Straße north of the station to Hermann-Blankenstein-Straße south of the station, was renovated and now serves as the only entrance and exit to the station.

References

  1. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ↑ "Stationspreisliste 2018" [Station price list 2018] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
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