Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg station

Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg
Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg
	View of the platform from the level crossing
General information
Location	Drewitz, Potsdam, Brandenburg; Germany
Coordinates	52°22′55″N 13°7′18″E
Line(s)	Berlin–Blankenheim railway (KBS 209.33);
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	5013
DS100 code	BDW [1]
IBNR	8011430
Category	5[2]
Fare zone	VBB: Berlin C and Potsdam B/5851[3]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	15 May 1879
Previous names	Drewitz (1879–2000)
Passengers
	< 2,500/day
Services
Location
	Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg Location within Brandenburg Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg Location within Germany Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg Location within Europe

Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg station is a station on the Berlin–Blankenheim railway located in the east of the Potsdam district of Drewitz near Babelsberg, the historic center of the German film industry, and the former West Berlin exclave of Steinstücken. The station's DS-100 code is BDW[1] and its station's numerical code is 5013.[2] It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[2]

Station building in October 2007, still displaying the old name

The station was opened on 15 May 1879 with the name of Drewitz. It was a freight border crossing point from East Germany to West Berlin from 1949 to 1990. Numerous safety devices were installed for this purpose such as special points that would prevent an unauthorized movement of a locomotive towards Berlin-Wannsee in the American sector of Berlin. This meant that some sets of points would cause trains making unauthorized movements to derail.

After the reunification of Germany, an ICE connecting train ran from Berlin Zoologischer Garten through Drewitz station to Michendorf as electrification had not been completed on any line from the west to Berlin.

On 28 May 2000, the station's name was changed to the current name in order to emphasize its proximity to the Babelsberg Media City (Medienstadt), including Babelsberg Studio.

The entire building is under heritage protection.

Rail services

The following services stop at the station:

Line	Route
RE 7	Dessau – Bad Belzig – Michendorf – Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg – Berlin – BER Airport - Terminal 1-2 – Wünsdorf-Waldstadt – Lübbenau – Senftenberg
RB 37	Berlin-Wannsee – Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg – Michendorf – Beelitz Stadt

References

Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
"Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
"Der VBB-Tarif: Aufteilung des Verbundgebietes in Tarifwaben und Tarifbereiche" (PDF). Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam. Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg. 1 January 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2019.

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[Eisenbahnatlas-1] Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.

[categories-2] "Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.

[3] "Der VBB-Tarif: Aufteilung des Verbundgebietes in Tarifwaben und Tarifbereiche" (PDF). Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam. Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg. 1 January 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2019.