Berlin Olympiastadion railway station

Olympiastadion is a railway station in the Westend district of Berlin. Located at the southern entrance of the Olympic Stadium, it is served by the S-Bahn lines rail text color|system=SBB|line=S75 and rail text color|system=SBB|line=S9, and other lines (especially the rail text color|system=SBB|line=S5) are extended to the station during major events. The station consists of one island platform which is in regular use, as well as four further terminal island platforms which are only used for the extra trains during major events.The station opened in 1909 on the "Westbahn" suburban railway north of the Grunewald forest. It was then called "Rennbahn" after a horse racing circuit at the site of the todays stadium. Like the nearby U-Bahn station it received the name "Stadion" in 1913, when the "Deutsches Stadion", projected for the 1916 Summer Olympics, was inaugurated. After Berlin was awarded the 1936 Summer Olympics the station was again renamed "Reichssportfeld" until it got its actual designation in 1960, spelled without a hyphen in contrast to the "Olympia-Stadion" U-Bahn station. Adjacent to the south is the Berlin Unité d'Habitation, erected in 1958 according to plans by Le Corbusier.