Crossing the Berlin border on the S-Bahn (2007)

[rafigonzalez]

der sound der baureihe 485 ist einfach herrlich

[schikoz]

schade das ich nicht mehr in berlin wohne ich vermisse diese sounds

[SaschaPascalS]

@rafigonzalez What 485? In the Video you only see 481 ;)

[aufsmaul007]

@davedavid 86:

Yeah, there are new trains! The new ones are the BR 481 (built 1996 - 2004), BR 480 (built 1987, 1994) and BR 485 (built 1988 - 1992). The old ones are the BR 475 (built in the 1920's), BR 476 (built in the 1930's) and the BR 477 (built in the 1930's). ;)

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[aufsmaul007]

@ktome889:

The old commuter station "Lehrter Stadtbahnhof" was refreshed in the 1980's. For the new central station of Berlin it had been destroyed. The Hauptbahnhof Lehrter Bahnhof ist a all new station. There are 6 railway tracks above the earth and 8 in the underground (+ in the future commuter trains & Underground & trams). Also new and opened at the 28 May 2006 are the stations Jungfernheide, Gesundbrunnen, Potsdamer Platz, Südkreuz and Lichterfelde Ost.

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[mart9012]

Isn't Sudkreuz just the new name for Papesstr ? I use Sudkreuz a lot as I visit Sudende regularly.

[flughafentxl]

'Nächste Station: Hauptbahnhof. Übergang zum Regional- und Fernverkehr' I love Berlin - riding the S- and U-Bahnen is great! :)

[WaRdXn]

thanks a lot for this clip! does gives me a better view of germany while studying history.

[davedavid86]

have they changed the S-Bahn trains - or the train gauges - since the reunification? this train seems a lot quicker than the one i saw in the 1990 video..

[SaschaPascalS]

Of course. In 1989 the 485 have been standard, nowadays the models are the 481 and 480.

The 485 were from the 50s (the youngest ones), so they needed to replaced.

[citytransportinfo]

I also have some film of this, from 1990.

The difference is very significant, but knowing the history this is to be expected.

Back then no-one could have imagined that such changes would be possible - until one afternoon in 1989 when something unthinkable and in many ways totally unexpected happened (East Berliners suddenly allowed to visit the west.)

I saw it on the TV news. It was nice to have good news for a change!

Simon

[ktome889]

Wow!! I saw the video that introduced both stations in the 80's and compared it. The stations got refreshed, so CLEAN an it is new( I heard that they rebiuld it)!

[irabnut]

wow! that was really cool the first minute is great if you watch it at the same time as the video you posted this as a response to. your train goes faster though so you have to pause it once and a while. but really cool. you should edit them together slow down your train and put them in the same video.

[LomLom1975]

I've never watched both of them at the same time, but I'll try now! I like comparisons between old and new places (even if time doesn't exist...). In my hometown Kitzingen I took pictures from the exact same point the photographer did long time ago (50-100 years old pictures) and published this comparison in our local newspaper. They even paid me money for this :-)

[lamuboy]

nice job!!!!

[JohnnyNW]

Thank you for this! I remember this stretch in the late 70s/early 80s when the Lehrter was almost a ghost station in the middle of the day...what a difference now that it's the Hbf!

[geschmackfilms]

this is really GREAT

[devilTM]

really good video-response