Mahlow station

Mahlow station is a station in the town of Mahlow in the municipality of Blankenfelde-Mahlow in the district of Teltow-Fläming in the German state of Brandenburg. It is on the Berlin–Dresden suburban line and is served by Berlin S-Bahn line S2.LocationThe station is located in the centre of the town of Mahlow at kilometre 16.8 of the Berlin–Dresden railway, a few hundred metres inside the Berlin Outer Ring (Berliner Außenring, BAR).HistoryThe Mahlow station was opened along with the Dresden Railway on 17 June 1875. Electric S-Bahn trains ran to Mahlow from 15 May 1939 and the S-Bahn connection was extended to Rangsdorf in October 1940. The station building was hit and badly damaged in air raids in 1943. S-Bahn traffic from the north was cut off by the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. A shuttle service was operated south to Rangsdorf, but it was closed in September 1961. Instead an existing service between Rangsdorf and Wünsdorf was extended to Mahlow, but it was diverted to run over the Outer Ring to Schönefeld in May 1963. In order to maintain a connection to Mahlow, a separate platform was built at Blankenfelde station and the short section was served by a shuttle service. This was operated during the first years by a train that included a diesel locomotive of class V 15 and a control car. The train was nicknamed the "Blauer Bock" (blue billy goat), because of the blue paint applied to the locomotive and the name of a contemporary radio entertainment program.