In addition to the platform for the S-Bahn, there were on one side a loading ramp at the freight shed and a loading road. On the other side, there was a loading facility for
VEB Müllabfuhr (the state waste-disposal company). The city of Berlin later closed the garbage loading siding. There were sidings for
VEB Rewatex (a new name for the nationalised W. Spindler Company) and from the late 1980s for
VEB Dampfkesselbau, later called
VEB Behälterbau. In 1983, DRG ripped up the southern of the two loading ramps and replaced it with four new freight tracks. In 1988, as part of rationalisation measures, interlocking “Spf” was closed and its supervision was taken over by the signal room at the station as part of an electro-mechanical system. The old semaphore signals were replaced by colour light signals. This was followed after
Die Wende (the changes accompanying
German reunification) by the removal of the freight facilities and the Rewatex siding. Today, apart from some fragments of the tracks in the ground, few signs of the past importance of the freight infrastructure remain. In 2006, the platform was moved to Oberspreestraße, shortening the route for passengers transferring between the S-Bahn and
trams to
Köpenick or
Adlershof. The old entrance to Ernst-Grube-Strasse has been maintained. ==References==