The railway was originally opened in 1893, at which time it was operated by
steam locomotives and carried both freight and passenger traffic. In 1921 the line was electrified, and a new street based routing opened for the final length into Strausberg. The originally routing remained open for freight traffic and was also electrified. In 1926, the line was extended from Lustgarten to Jugendheim, but this section closed in 1970. Freight traffic ceased in 2005, and the original routing was closed, along with the rail connection to the main line network. The railway is of
standard gauge, has a length of about , and is electrified on the overhead system at 750
volts. From south to north, the line serves stops at Strausberg railway station, Landhausstraße, Schlagmühle, Stadtwald, Hegermühle, Wolfstal, Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße, Elisabethstraße and Lustgarten. The depot is situated on the original route, and is accessed by a curve just beyond the Lustgarten terminus. The line had been mainly operated by three
ČKD Tatra KT8D5 tram cars, built in 1989/1990 and acquired from
Košice in 1995. A prototype ČKD
Tatra T6C5 car, built in 1998 as a demonstrator for the
United States market and operated on the
New Orleans streetcar system for several months, had been acquired from
Siemens (the new owners of Tatra) in 2003 and had been used in off-peak service. Two older
Reko-Triebwagen TZ 69 cars, built in 1969 and acquired in the 1980s, were still available for passenger service, and a third had been converted into a works car. The railway also owns an even older preserved passenger car, dating from 1925. The Strausberg Railway joined the delivery framework of the
BVG Berlin Transport Company ordering 2
Flexity Berlin trams on 5. September 2011. The two short double-sided two-cab trams were delivered in February and March 2013 replacing its older trams in daily service. ==Photogallery==