page_title: Berlin–Szczecin railway
section_title: State railway era
hierarchical_section_title: Berlin–Szczecin railway / History / State railway era
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Reste des alten Empfangsgebäudes des alten Berliner Fernbahnhofes Stettiner Bahnhof bzw. Nordbahnhof English: Cladding of the old entrance building, station Stettiner Bahnhof / Nordbahnhof (Berlin), Germany
context_page_description: The Berlin–Szczecin railway, also known in German as the Stettiner Bahn is a mainline railway built by the Berlin-Stettin Railway Company between the German capital of Berlin and the now Polish city of Szczecin, then part of Prussia and known as Stettin. It is one of the oldest lines in Germany, built in 1842 and 1843 and was the company’s trunk line. The line was duplicated between Berlin and Angermünde in 1863 and between Angermünde and Szczecin in 1873.
  The line is still used by regional trains on the Berlin–Angermünde route and on the Angermünde–Szczecin route as well as the long-distance trains on the entire Berlin–Szczecin line. Between central Berlin and the suburban station of Bernau the line also has its own suburban tracks used by the Berlin S-Bahn. The line is also a major route for the transport of freight between Germany and Poland. Except for the section between Passow and Szczecin Gumieńce the entire route is electrified.
context_section_description: On 12 December 1897 the line along Grüntaler Straße in the Berlin district of Wedding, which had several level crossings, was moved on to the route of the Ringbahn to connect with the new transfer station of Gesundbrunnen. At Bornholmer Straße the line then branched off the line of the Prussian Northern Railway to the east. Freight tracks on the section had already been opened on 1 May 1897.
  Between 1903 and 1906, the Stettiner station was expanded and converted to accommodate suburban train services.
  The rapid growth of road transport at the beginning of the twentieth century led to chaotic conditions at level crossings, requiring the separation of the modes. This was carried out in several stages between 1912 and 1916 by creating embankments from Berlin to Bernau and separating long-distance and suburban tracks. The planned electrification of the suburban railways was not implemented for the time being, owing to World War I.
caption: Remains of the old Stettiner station
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