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EspañolBerlin U-Bahn ghost station in 1989
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Berlin U-Bahn ghost station in 1989
Description:
Someone asked me about it so I thought it might be interesting to post this. It's one of those "nothing happens in it" movies. This clip just shows what it looked like to travel on a West Berlin U-Bahn line under East Berlin, passing through the closed down eastern stations. This was taped few weeks after the opening of the Wall (in early December 1989) when the ride still looked almost identical. The only difference is that when the wall was standing the "ghost station" would be less illuminated and there would invariably be a couple of East German guards with rifles standing on the platform and drinking tea or whatever. Here we are on Line 8. There were two western U-Bahn lines passing under East Berlin, this is the one with no stops in East Berlin (Line 6 stopped at Friedrichstrasse). We left our last West Berlin station Moritzplatz (next to the border crossing Heinrich-Heine-Strasse) and went under several eastern stations already. We are now approaching the last eastern station, Bernauer Strasse. The guards are gone and there is more illumination provided - probably for the cleaning crew in preparation for the station's first opening in 28 years. The train slowing down is very characteristic - they always did that at those ghost stations. We then pick up speed and arrive at the first western station Voltastrasse.
Author:
JanPB
Tags:
Berlin, U-Bahn, Linie, Geisterbahnhof, ghost, station,
Berlin U-Bahn ghost station in 1989
Description:
Someone asked me about it so I thought it might be interesting to post this. It's one of those "nothing happens in it" movies. This clip just shows what it looked like to travel on a West Berlin U-Bahn line under East Berlin, passing through the closed down eastern stations. This was taped few weeks after the opening of the Wall (in early December 1989) when the ride still looked almost identical. The only difference is that when the wall was standing the "ghost station" would be less illuminated and there would invariably be a couple of East German guards with rifles standing on the platform and drinking tea or whatever. Here we are on Line 8. There were two western U-Bahn lines passing under East Berlin, this is the one with no stops in East Berlin (Line 6 stopped at Friedrichstrasse). We left our last West Berlin station Moritzplatz (next to the border crossing Heinrich-Heine-Strasse) and went under several eastern stations already. We are now approaching the last eastern station, Bernauer Strasse. The guards are gone and there is more illumination provided - probably for the cleaning crew in preparation for the station's first opening in 28 years. The train slowing down is very characteristic - they always did that at those ghost stations. We then pick up speed and arrive at the first western station Voltastrasse.
Author:
JanPB
Tags:
Berlin, U-Bahn, Linie, Geisterbahnhof, ghost, station,
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