Siemensbahn
Sign in to savethumb|Wernerwerk station (2017) thumb|Siemensstadt station (2021) thumb|Gartenfeld terminus (2021) Siemensbahn (German for "Siemens Railway") is an abandoned 4.5 km rapid transit line of the Berlin S-Bahn in Berlin. It was opened in 1929 as a modern, grade separated, third rail electrified, double track, heavy rail branch line serving three new train stations, and closed in 1980.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- railway line
- Named after
- Siemensstadt
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Spandau
- Location
- Siemensstadt
- Manufacturer
- Siemens & Halske
- Image
- 17-04-11-Siemensbahn-Wernerwerk-RalfR-DSC 0125.jpg
- Length
- 4.5
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- Commons category
- Siemensbahn
- track gauge
- standard-gauge railway
- route number
- 6022
- date of official closure
- 1980-00-00
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- commissioned by
- Siemens & Halske
- inception
- 1929-00-00
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- Description
- History
- Closing
- Reactivation and expansion plans
- Literature
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- References
thumb|Wernerwerk station (2017) thumb|Siemensstadt station (2021) thumb|Gartenfeld terminus (2021) Siemensbahn (German for "Siemens Railway") is an abandoned 4.5 km rapid transit line of the Berlin S-Bahn in Berlin. It was opened in 1929 as a modern, grade separated, third rail electrified, double track, heavy rail branch line serving three new train stations, and closed in 1980.
The Siemens & Halske company privately financed the line to improve worker access to its industrial district in the eponymous Siemensstadt locality of Spandau. Siemensstadt not only was home to production and research facilities, but a private town with social and childcare services, housing tracts, sports venues, allotments, churches, retail and leisure facilities, all designed to modern architectural and social standards with minimal municipal oversight.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Siemensbahn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.