One section is located just south of the Karl-Marx-Straße level crossing and consists of an island platform for regional and long-distance services.
Blankenfelde station was established as a transfer point to provide a connection between West Berlin and long-distance services on the railway to Dresden.
The following year, the station was renamed Blankenfelde (Kr Zossen) due to changes in district boundaries.
Instead an existing service between Rangsdorf and Wünsdorf was extended to Mahlow,[4] but it was diverted to run over the Outer Ring to Schönefeld in May 1963.
[4] In order to maintain a connection to Mahlow, a separate platform was built at Blankenfelde and the short section was served by a shuttle service.
After the reunification of Germany, it was decided to reconnect the West Berlin S-Bahn network with the surrounding area.
Since the Dresden Railway had been electrified with the overhead system in 1985, the restoration of the S-Bahn to Rangsdorf would have required a completely new section of track to be built.
After the fall of the Wall and the re-commissioning of the S-Bahn to Blankenfelde, regional transport continued to use the route via Schönefeld and the trains ran about twice an hour to Berlin.
The station is served by S-Bahn line S2 operated at 20-minute intervals and the RE8S and RB24 Regional-Express services, which run hourly: The station is served by the following service(s):[8] There are interchanges with the buses operated by the Verkehrsgesellschaft Teltow-Fläming (the municipal bus company of Teltow-Fläming).