Tracks

Horse-drawn carriages could still be found in Berlin at the beginning of 1920 but, little by little, they too began…

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The S-Bahn

The S-Bahn is the urban line whose stations are easily recognizable by the white S on a green background as…

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The Ring

The Ring is that circular stretch of the S-Bahn that, quite logically you might say, encircles the entire semi-central zone…

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Berlin Hauptbahnhof

After eight years of work, on May 28, 2006, the new Hauptbahnhof or Central Station of Berlin opened on the…

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The Brandenburg Gate

The Brandenburg Gate is without any doubt a familiar symbol throughout much of the world, but what much of the…

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Gleis 17 / Track 17

From Hauptbahnhof we can take the S7 toward Wannsee. The line travels quite a ways aboveground through the center of…

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Wannsee

The question now is: shall we turn around or continue onward to Wannsee, the largest lake in West Berlin? If…

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On the S1

The first thing you may notice is that the train stops every two minutes, as punctual as a Swiss clock,…

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