Most people will remember the station name Messe Süd , simply called Eichkamp before 2002. However, only a few know that the original stop, opened in 1896, was located 250 meters southeast of today’s station—specifically where the S-Bahn tracks from Westkreuz to Grunewald pass under the present-day Cordesstraße and the rails spread far apart.
The relocation was part of the "Great Electrification," during which Berlin’s S-Bahn network switched to electric operation. In 1928, the new station opened on the Spandauer Vorortbahn, which left some passengers confused.
A year later, a melancholic article titled "The Station Dies" appeared in the DAZ newspaper. The author compared the station’s demise to a death, lamenting the loss of the "leisurely steam trains" and reminiscing about the days when "tens of thousands" crowded the small station "as if at a folk festival."
In doing so, he completely ignored the fact that low passenger numbers and the absence of facilities were among the reasons for relocating the station in the first place.