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Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
Berlin Alternative City Tour
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Brandenburgweg, 13629 Berlin, Germany

The Berlin S-Bahn [ɛs.baːn] is a rapid transit railway system in and around Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It has been in operation under this name since December 1930, having been previously called the special tariff area Berliner Stadt-, Ring- und Vorortbahnen . It complements the Berlin U-Bahn and is the link to many outer-Berlin areas, such as Berlin Schönefeld Airport. While in the first decades of this tariff zone the trains were steam-drawn, and even after the electrification of large parts of the network, a number of lines remained under steam, today the term S-Bahn is used in Berlin only for those lines and trains with third-rail electrical power transmission and the special Berlin S-Bahn loading gauge. The third unique technical feature of the Berlin S-Bahn, the automated mechanical train control, is being phased out and replaced by a communications-based train control system, but which again is specific to the Berlin S-Bahn. In other parts of Germany and other German-speaking countries, other trains are designated S-Bahn without those Berlin specific features. The Hamburg S-Bahn is the only other system using third-rail electrification. Today, the Berlin S-Bahn is no longer defined as this special tariff area of the national railway company, but is instead just one specific means of transportation, defined by its special technical characteristics, in an area-wide tariff administered by a public transport authority. The Berlin S-Bahn is now an integral part of the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg, the regional tariff zone for all kinds of public transit in and around Berlin and the federal state of Brandenburg.
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