page_title: Teltow railway station
section_title: After the building of the Wall
hierarchical_section_title: Teltow railway station / History / After the building of the Wall
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Das ehemalige Umspannwerk am Bahnhof Teltow für die von 1951 bis 1961 dort fahrende S-Bahn steht unter Denkmalschutz
context_page_description: Teltow station is located in the town of Teltow on the Anhalt Railway south of Berlin and was opened in 1901. Since then, the station has been repeatedly remodelled. The station served regional passenger and freight traffic and was the terminus of a Berlin S-Bahn service from 1950 to 1961. The direct connection to Berlin was lost with the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. It was restored in 2006.
  Teltow Station should not be confused with Teltow Stadt station, which opened in 2005 and is near the centre of the town at the end of a branch line of the S-Bahn and about 2 kilometres to the north-west of Teltow station.
context_section_description: The Berlin Wall completely severed the railway line between Teltow and Lichterfelde. The remaining tracks of the S-Bahn line and the freight railway were blocked and the bridge of the S-Bahn line over the Machnower Straße was dismantled. The rectifier plant was taken out of operation.
  Teltow station was thus accessible only from Ludwigsfelde and by a connecting curve at Genshagener Heide station from the Outer Ring coming from the west. Its use for passenger services declined sharply as both Berlin and Potsdam could only reached by train with substantial detours. It remained active at first, but trains towards Ludwigsfelde were later thinned (1962: 14 trains; 1989: 6-8 trains per day in each direction), with some trains continuing directly towards Jüterbog. Immediately after the Wall was built, there were two pairs of trains during peak hour running via Genshagener Heide to Berlin. In 1963 they were discontinued, but a pair of early trains continued to operate to Genshagener Heide until 1983. The majority of passengers used buses that connected Potsdam via Teltow town centre and Teltow station with Berlin Schönefeld Airport station. In the 1980s, it operated every 30 minutes and between Teltow and Potsdam station it ran every 15 minutes on weekdays.
  Electrification of the line through Teltow station was completed on 30 July 1982.
caption: The rectifier unit for the S-Bahn was taken out of operation in 1961. The building is heritage-listed.
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