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Schöneiche bei Berlin tramway
Schöneiche bei Berlin tramway
Operation
Locale	Schöneiche, Rüdersdorf
Open	1910
Status	open
Lines	1
Operator(s)	Schöneicher – Rüdersdorf Strassenbahn GmbH
Infrastructure
Track gauge	1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge
Propulsion system(s)	Electric
Statistics
Route length	14.1 km
	Approx. 3,400 per day
Overview
Website	http://www.srs-tram.de/

The Schöneiche bei Berlin tramway is an interurban tramway running from Friedrichshagen S-Bahn station to the towns of Schöneiche bei Berlin and Rüdersdorf, to the east of Berlin.

Route

The route starts at the Friedrichshagen S-Bahn station, located on line S3. It also connects to lines 60 and 61 of the Berlin trams here. It then runs alongside Schöneicher Landstraße, before diverging from the road, and entering Brandenburg, and the town of Schöneiche. It then runs on street, through Kirschenstraße and Puschkinstraße, before passing the depot, at which point it returns to a single track running alongside Dorfstraße. It then makes a 90 degree turn at a roundabout, and travels past the centre of Schöneiche. After leaving Schöneiche, and following Kalkberger Straße, passing under the A10 road, the line then enters the town of Rüdersdorf, terminating at a loop located at Marienstraße.

Ticketing

The line is route 88 in the VBB system, with the majority of the line being located in the Berlin C fare zone.^[2] VBB tickets can be purchased that allow travel on the tramway, along with other transport in the VBB scheme. For passengers only travelling on the tram, the line also sells single, 10 journey, and monthly tickets, only valid on the tram. For these tickets the line is divided into three zones: Berlin, Schöneiche, and Rüdersdorf.^[3]

Rolling stock

The tramway currently operates four types of vehicle in regular use.^[4]

The oldest vehicles in use are four Düwag GT6 trams, purchased from Heidelberg. These were originally built in 1966 and 1973,^[5] and do not provide low floor access.

The fleet also includes three Tatra KT4DNF trams purchased from Cottbus and Szeged, which originally were built in 1987 and 1990. These do provide low floor access to the middle section of the tramcar.^[5]

In 2018 the tramway purchased two prototype Transtech Artic low-floor articulated trams from Helsinki.^[6] Tram 51 (Helsinki No. 401) entered service in September 2018.^[5] Tram 52 (Helsinki No. 402) was delivered in early 2019.^[5] The first entirely low floor service was operated on May 1, 2019.^[5] A third Artic-Tram, numbered 53 (newly built for the Schöneiche-Rudersdorf tramway), entered service on March 25, 2020.^[7]

In December 2022 two Stadtbahnwagen M trams were bought from the Ruhrbahn [de]. These had previously operated on the Mülheim tram network and had been modified with the addition of a low-floor centre section.^[8]

GT6 in June 2011
Tatra tram in March 2014
Tram 52 in February 2019

References

^ "Wir über uns". Schöneicher-Rüdersdorfer Straßenbahn. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
^ "Tarife". Schöneicher-Rüdersdorfer Straßenbahn (in German). Retrieved 10 December 2018.
^ "Haustrarif". Schöneicher-Rüdersdorfer Straßenbahn (in German). Retrieved 10 December 2018.
^ "Wagenparkliste Schöneicher-Rüdersdorfer Straßenbahn GmbH". tram-info. 14 July 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Betriebsstart für finnische Straßenbahnen bei Schöneicher – Rüdersdorfer Straßenbahn" [Start of operation for Finnish trams in Schöneiche – Rüdersdorf]. Urban Transport Magazine (in German). May 1, 2019. Archived from the original on October 17, 2019. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
^ "ŠkodaTranstech to provide two trams to Germany's SRS". Railway Technology. 26 October 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
^ "Dritter Škoda Niederflurtriebwagen bei Schöneiche-Rüdersdorfer Straßenbahn in Betrieb" [Third Škoda low-floor tram starts operation in Schöneiche-Rüdersdorf]. Urban Transport Magazine (in German). April 17, 2020. Archived from the original on August 26, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
^ "Ruhrbahn Essen: Zwei M-Wagen wechseln den Besitzer". Eurailpress (in German). 2022-12-03. Retrieved 2024-07-28.