After the fall of the Berlin Wall a single-track of the S-Bahn was rebuilt between Lichtenrade and Mahlow and services were restored to Blankenfelde on 31 August 1992. Occasionally freight trains ran on the S-Bahn tracks to the south, including trains carrying refuse. Between January and May 1992 extensive renovation was carried out on the track. The speed limit was raised to in May 1992. This reduced long-distance journey times by 35 minutes. In August 2019, the travel time between Dresden-Neustadt and Berlin-Südkreuz was 102 minutes.
