S8 (Berlin)

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title: "S8 (Berlin)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["berlin-s-bahn-lines"] description: "Train line of the Berlin S-Bahn" topic_path: "general/berlin-s-bahn-lines" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S8_(Berlin)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Train line of the Berlin S-Bahn ::

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name
image	S8 nach Schönfließ als BR 483-48 im Bahnhof Grünau.jpg
system	Berlin S-Bahn
locale	Berlin
planopen
open
yearcommenced
yearcompleted
close
operator	S-Bahn Berlin GmbH
stock	DBAG Class 483
DBAG Class 484
electrification	750 V DC Third rail
map
map_state	uncollapsed
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S8 is a line on the Berlin S-Bahn. It operates from Wildau to Birkenwerder over:

• the Görlitz line, opened in 1866 and electrified in 1929,
• the Ring line, completed in 1877 and electrified in 1926,
• the Outer ring, completed on 22 November 1952 and electrified for the S-Bahn in 1962,
• and a short section of the Prussian Northern line, opened on 10 July 1877 and electrified on 8 August 1925.

Service history

The S8 was created on 2 June 1991, as a slightly shorter replacement of the Lime Green route of the East Berlin S-Bahn between Bernau bei Berlin and Grünau (via the eastern part of the Ringbahn).

In popular culture

An S8 train to Zeuthen appears in the opening frames of Pet Shop Boys' music video for the single Leaving from the album Elysium (2012).

Gallery

Bahnhof Berlin-Grünau S8 2006.jpg|S8 at Grünau S8 Schönfließ bahnsteig.jpg|Train of DBAG Class 483/484 at Schönfließ station on S8 Berlin - S-Bahnhof Plänterwald (7713983966).jpg|S8 at Plänterwald Db-s-bahn-berlin-s8-br-823635.jpg|S8 at Treptower Park

References

References

1. (2008-06-27). "S-Bahn Network Map". [[Berlin S-Bahn.
2. (9 June 2021). "How the S-Bahn got its numbers". Deutsche Bahn.
3. (November 1990). "Berliner Nahverkehrsnetz – Schnellbahnnetz". Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.

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