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Berlin was restored just German capital after the unification of the two German states in 1990 and has approximately 3 to 5 million people The city is one of the oldest and largest subway networks in Europe transport network rapid transit is actually two separate systems, U-Bahn with 9 lines, and the S-Bahn in 1993 founded the Berlin-Brandenburg VBB Verkehrsgemeinschaft organize all public transport as well as in Berlin and around the state Brandenburg.
In West Berlin, these line numbers were allocated in 1966, replacing the letters previously used U prefix was added in 1984 to distinguish the S-Bahn U-Bahn lines of the lines taken by the OAG in East Berlin however, not numbers were used on maps or U-Bahn or for the S-Bahn lines U-Bahn Berlin system consists of two types of lines, both of which have the same 1435 mm.
1 rows of small profile with 2 to 3 m wide and 12 m long 8 cars married pairs; operating normally six or eight car trains if the newest HK stock two cars 4 oars; third rail supply, with the current being collected from the upper side of the power rail; rolling A3 and HK.
2 lines high profile with two 65 m width and 15 m length 5 cars married pairs; normally functioning as off-peak trains of six cars also trains 4 trains cars of the recent H stock consist of six cars totaling 98 7 m, with walkways between carriages on major lines, power is also supplied by the via a third rail, but with the current being collected from the lower side of the current rail.
- The first U-Bahn line opened in 1902 between Warschauer Br CKE now Warschauer Stra e and Knie now Ernst-Reuter-Platz, with a branch of Potsdamer Platz This first view of the online map is primarily elevated in the years monitoring network has grown steadily to the west of the west and west and today branches were built in the south and now the original line was extended in the downtown Potsdamer Platz as far as Spittelmarkt early in the First World war in 1914, the U-Bahn Berlin already had a total length of 37 8 km the old lines belong to the small profile network see NIC 1920.
- In 1923, the first part of a new north-south line opened old line C between now and Seestra e Hallesches Tor through town along Friedrichstra e This was the first large profile lines From there U -Bahn Berlin rose again very rapidly until 1930, when the lines were mostly been completed as we know them today, were operating as line a and B, and the first sections of several new lines were opened, too Alexanderplatz to Friedrichsfelde - line e, e Seestra Tempelhof - line C, Mehringdamm Grenzallee as a branch of the C line, and Gesundbrunnen Leinestra e - D line View the network map 1940.
- After the Second World War, the U-Bahn and S-Bahn were running from one side of Berlin to the other until the wall was built in 1961, while today's was divided into two lines, the line has been reduced to Schlesisches Tor and the lines and began traveling through east Berlin skipping all stations on the ghost stations in the territory of the GDR an exception was Friedrichstra e, which was a crossing point border for pedestrians and a transfer point to the S-Bahn See individual lines for details.
- While Berlin was a network card view the divided city in 1961, on the east side of the wall that the line was extended mainly on the surface eastward into new residential areas Tierpark 1973 1989 H now to west, a new line has been added, a north-south link avoiding open historical center between 1961 and 1976 line opened between 1972 and 1984 is proving to be an important link between the districts of south-east and west.
- After the Berlin Wall was torn down in November 1989, all ghost stations were reopened as soon as possible, the line was restored and reopened in 1993, and two years later, in 1995, also returned to the home terminal origin to Warschauer Stra e in the traditional Oberbaum Bridge.
- During this time was extended north to Wittenau 1994 and south of Hermannstra e S-Bahn-Ring, 1996 In October 1998, a new station called was added to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park line between Gleisdreieck and Potsdamer Platz improve access to the new Potsdamer Platz After some years of construction a short extension of Vinetastra e Pankow was eventually opened on 16 September 2000, the new terminal station located just below the S-Bahn.
- After 9 years of existence, line U15 disappeared from the map, instead of the number was reintroduced December 12, 2004, which now serves Nollendorfplatz - Krumme Lanke section.
- In August 2009, three new stations opened on a line called temporarily as line This line is actually the first part of a westward extension, construction of which was launched in the 1990s, in combination with the new government district around the Reichstag and the new central station, which opened in 2006. While the tunnels between Brandenburger Tor and Hauptbahnhof and the station boxes Hauptbahnhof and the Bundestag were completed in conjunction with the government buildings, the construction of the station Brandenburger Tor began only in 2004 the short line is currently operated by a shuttle service on a single track More info and photos here See below for Alexanderplatz - section Brandenburger Tor.
At present, the U-Bahn Berlin network has a total length of 147 km long and 5 to 10 lines, with the longest line being 32 km and the shortest only 1 5 km.
Ruhleben, U2 operates on an embankment to Olympia-Stadion, before entering the first tunnel section, which crosses the region of Charlottenburg to a point between Wittenbergplatz and Nollendorfplatz The section between Ernst-Reuter-Platz formerly Knie and Potsdamer Platz is part of the opening in 1902 the original U-Bahn underground line between the following section just after Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park and winds through the city center on a rather indirect route Senefelderplatz after he emerges from the tunnel continue on an elevated structure along Sch nhauser Allee, before entering the tunnel between the e stations Sch nhauser Allee Vinetastra, the latter remaining the northern terminus of 1930 to 2000, when the line was eventually extended to Pankow station S-Bahn What is now the U2 line, was divided into two separate lines when the wall was built in 1961 the elevated section between Nollendorfplatz and Gleisdreiec k Service was out 1972 to 1993.
U3 is essentially the Wilmersdorf-Dahlem U-Bahn, which is well connected to the U-Bahn Berlin from the beginning, was built by the then independent municipalities of Wilmersdorf and Dahlem, so the stations have different designs subway stations typical Berlin this time on the surface section, all stations designed individually input buildings at street level While the outer section by Dahlem happens in an open cup, the road through underground from Wilmersdorf 1960 branch Krumme Lanke was used as U2, but became U1 in 1993 when this alignment U2 was restored but in 2004, the U3 line number was reintroduced and assigned to this leg.
U4 was originally built by the city of Schцneberg isolated as U-Bahn line, but the same settings used on lines Berlin It was finally connected to the Berlin small profile system in 1926, when the station Nollendorfplatz was rebuilt, and the operation on the road Warschauer StraЯe was introduced in the 1980s, the automatic operation has been tested on driverless line U4.
U5 This essentially consists of an underground section opened in 1930 and completed a surface extension 89 in 1988, with a short underground part of 1973 between the U5 was once entirely located in East Berlin and was the only line high profile in this part of the city Although a western extension was envisaged from 1930, this will not be achieved before 2020.
Online U5, all trains ended in Kaulsdorf-Nord during peak hours.
Operated as an isolated line, U55 finally started to operate a shuttle service station 3 in 2009. Since April 2010, the missing section between Alexanderplatz and Brandenburger Tor is under construction There will be intermediate stations Unter den Linden transfer line U6, Museumsinsel Humboldtforum Schlossplatz and Berliner Rathaus.
Click here to see photos taken during a walk tunnel on 27 May 2004.
U6 was the first online high profile when it opened in 1923, runs along Friedrichstra E, north-south axis of Berlin's downtown Initially, the old line C had two branches of the south, but the branch is Mehringdamm to Britz- S d was transferred to the new U7 in 1966 in the 1950s and 1960s, the U6 line was extended at both ends to become the busiest line north-south extension of Berlin north Tegel includes a raised section 3 stations.
Running basement for about an hour, U7 is the longest metro line His part oldest of Berlin is the stretch through Kreuzberg Neuk LLN Mehringdamm Grenzallee, which opened in 1920 as a branch of the old line C now U6 in 1966 U7 became a separate line and was then extended at both ends through the western extension Sch neberg Wilmersdorf and Charlottenburg and Spandau finally reached in 1984, at a time when it n 'there was no S-Bahn service to this sector U7 proved a major diameter line in what was formerly West Berlin.
U8 is completely underground and includes the Gesundbrunnen-Neuk LLN line U-Bahn line D opened in the 1920s during the time of the city division, the U8 train ran through East Berlin skipping all stations Bernauer Stra e Heinrich-Heine-Stra e all ghost stations were reopened in the months that followed the fall of the Wall in November 1989, the construction of an extension to the north began in the 1970s and finally reached Wittenau in 1994 although the extension of the first station to M 2-3 rkisches Viertel was later shelved due to other priorities after the unification of the city in the south, an extension of one plant was completed to provide the exchange with the S-Bahn ring line which had reopened in 1993.
U9 line was opened shortly before the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961, it runs entirely on the former West Berlin territory, and an important north-south route bypassing the historic city center, it is quite basement, and with his right alignment with Berlin's fastest lines.
In the city center around the Reichstag, new government buildings and a large station to Lehrter Stadtbahnhof were built the Berlin overall project as capital of Germany included the construction of an extension to the west Alexanderplatz - Hotel town Rathaus - Schlossplatz Museumsinsel - Unter den exchange Linden with the replacement of Franz sische Stra e - Brandenburg Gate next to the S-Bahn station formerly known as Unter den Linden - Bundestag next to the Reichstag - Hauptbahnhof central train station while the section between Brandenburger Tor and Hauptbahnhof finally opened its doors August 8, 2009, the construction of the missing section between Brandenburger Tor and Alexanderplatz officially started in April 2010 for completion in 2020 currently planned According to the former plan 200 km, the line was to continue Hauptbahnhof by e Turmstra west to the airport and Jungfernheide e Tegel.
Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe BVG - Official Website U-Bahn.
Untergrundbahn - large U-Bahn gallery Andr loop including many pix.
Die Berliner Untergrundbahn Marcus Schomacker incl historical NICs.
Berliner U-Bahn Archiv Axel Mauruszat offers historical documents.
Berlin U-Bahn S all stations including underground and elevated gallery.
U-Bahn-Museum U-Bahn station Olympia-Stadion - U2.
Robert Schwandl Berlin U-Bahn Album - All metro stations and high color - New Edition, May 2013, 160 pages, German, ISBN 978 3 836573 39 8 More info.
Robert Schwandl U-Bahn, S-Bahn Berlin Tram - February 2012, ISBN 978 3 836573 32 9 More info.
Schwandl Robert Schnellbahnen in Deutschland Metros in Germany U-Bahn - Stadtbahn - S-Bahn - April 2007, Berlin, ISBN 978 3 836 573 March 18 - All you need to know about German metro and light rail systems, with cards detailed and hundreds of color photos; 192 pages; Text German and English - More details.
Robert Schwandl BERLIN ALBUM U-BAHN - all 192 subway stations and high color - 144 p 240 color photos, map, German; July 2002, Berlin, ISBN 3-936573-01-8 More info.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berliner Nahverkehr eV und Berliner Fahrgastverband IGEB eV Berliner U-Bahn-Chronik - 2007, ISBN 978-3-89218-110-1 GVE-Verlag.
Andreas Biedl Die Fahrzeuge der Berliner U-Bahn, type B - June 2005 Neddermeyer, Berlin, ISBN 3933254566.
Christoph Brachmann Licht und Farbe im Berliner Untergrund - Oct 2003, p 292 - Gebr Mann, Berlin, ISBN 3786124779.
Verkehrsgeschichtl Bl tter e V e n U5 Geschichte aus dem Untergrund Zwischen Alex und H now - 2003, GVE, ISBN 3-89218-079-2.
Sigurd Hilkenbach Uwe Poppel Ein Berliner U- Bahn Streckenplдnen Jahrhundert und Fotos A century Berlin U-Bahn network in maps and photos - 80 pages - Jaron Berlin Vlg, 2002 ISBN 3897730499.
Gauglitz Gerd and Holger Orb BERLINS S UND U-BAHNNETZ EIN GESCHICHTLICHER STRECKENPLAN - 2001 Edition ISBN 3-933502-09-8 Gauglitz similar to diagrammatic History of London, this huge map shows all the opening and closing dates of all Berlin transit routes and stations.
Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler Klaus Kurpjuweit Berliner U- Bahn Fahrt seit Jahren hundert - 2001 Bebra Verlag Berlin.
Hardy, Brian BERLIN U-bahn Capital Transport, 1996 - well illustrated manual.
Domke, P und M Hoeft TUNNEL, GR BEN VIADUKTE - 100 Jahre Baugeschichte der Berliner U-Bahn - Kulturbild-Verlag, 1998 A good book that illustrates the history of the Berlin subway with lots of color and black and white photographs .
Meyer-Kronthaler, J BERLINS BAHNH U FE - Die ersten 100 Jahre - Verlag 1996 traces the history of all subway stations in Berlin in the first 100 years.
Gympel Jan U4 - DIE SCH NEBERGER U-BAHN - und Gesellschaft für Verkehrspolitik Eisenbahnwesen e V, 114 pages, ISBN 3892180903 November 2000.
U2 Geschichten aus dem Untergrund - GVE eV 1998.
Lemke Poppel BERLINER U-BAHN - 175 p Alba, D sseldorf 1996 well illustrated survey of the history of white railroad Berlin Subway and Elevated photographs in black and color.
Gottwaldt Alfred DAS BERLINER U UND S-BAHNNETZ Eine Geschichte in Streckenpl nen - Argon, Berlin, 1994 An excellent book showing all the network cards Berlin 1888 to 1990 in color.
Pabst, Martin und U-Bahn S-Fahrzeuge in Deutschland M nchen GeraNova, 2000 ISBN 3932785185 German metro and suburban railway rolling stock, 160 pages.
Durch Berlin Bellmann Günther mit der U-Bahn Wittenbergplatz bis Schцnhauser Allee 2001 bebra Berlin.
Bosetzky Horst Uwe Poppel Tegel Zurьckbleiben Bitte - 135 p Jaron Berlin Vlg, 1999 ISBN 3897730006.
Andreas Biedl, Norbert Walter Die Fahrzeuge der Berliner U-Bahn, Type E - 2001, ISBN 3933254175.
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