Dresden railroad brings better connection to BER Airport

Berlin's transport senator Ute Bonde (CDU) is looking forward to faster connections to BER Airport.

With the opening of the so-called Dresdner Bahn in the south of Berlin, the journey time from Berlin Central Station to BER Airport will be reduced to just over 20 minutes from mid-December.

The Airport Express (FEX) will then also run every 15 minutes instead of every 30 minutes as before, as announced by Deutsche Bahn and the Berlin-Brandenburg Transport Association (VBB). Trains will no longer run via Gesundbrunnen and Ostkreuz as before, but south via Potsdamer Platz and Südkreuz.

Dresden railroad goes into operation in mid-December

The 16-kilometre new line of the Dresdner Bahn between Südkreuz and Blankenfelde is scheduled to go into operation with the timetable change on 14 December 2025. It will be the largest commissioning in the region for many years. Previously, only the S-Bahn line S2 ran on the route. It was not possible for S-Bahn, regional and long-distance services to run together. The trains ran via the so-called Anhalter Bahn. This will change with the extension.

RB24 from Eberswalde will run to BER in future

In Berlin and Brandenburg, the new RE20 line from Lübbenau in the Spreewald to BER and on via Berlin Central Station will start with the timetable change. The RB24 from Eberswalde, which previously only ran to Alt-Schönefeld, will be extended to the airport. From Oranienburg, the RE32 will also run once an hour to BER from February 2026. Both connections will run via Berlin Ostkreuz, which means that there will then be two trains per hour in the direction of the airport.