Berlin's Whole Transit Network: S-Bahn, U-Bahn and Tram, 1838 → 2026 | Animated Map

From the first railway of 1838 to the tram that came back to Moabit in 2023: every S-Bahn, U-Bahn and tram line of Berlin, growing and shrinking on a real map. Green is the S-Bahn, blue the U-Bahn, red the tram. Horse trams, the world's first electric tram, the elevated Stadtbahn and the first U-Bahn on its iron viaduct; the electric S-Bahn of the 1920s, the flooded tunnel of 1945, and then a divided city. In 1961 the Wall cut every line at the border, West trains ran through sealed ghost stations under the East, West Berliners boycotted the S-Bahn and West Berlin tore out all its trams, while the East kept and extended them. The film follows the network joining up again after 1989, the Ringbahn closing its circle in 2002 and the U5 under Unter den Linden in 2020. Chapters 0:00 1838 – The first railway 0:28 1865 – Horse trams 0:52 1871 – Capital of an empire, the Ringbahn 1:20 1881 – The world's first electric tram 2:04 1902 – The U-Bahn opens 3:18 1920 – Greater Berlin 3:37 1924 – The electric S-Bahn 4:05 1929 – One company, the BVG 5:20 1945 – War and the flooded tunnel 6:08 1949 – One city, two networks 7:26 1961 – The Wall 8:16 1961 – The S-Bahn boycott 8:58 1963 – West Berlin tears out its trams 9:48 1972 – East and West build apart 10:32 1980 – The S-Bahn strike 11:22 1989 – The Wall falls 12:03 1992 – One network again 12:52 2006 – Hauptbahnhof, BER and the U5 13:46 Today: 655 km S-Bahn, U-Bahn and tram inside Berlin, from the year each track was built. Not included: regional and long-distance trains, buses, ferries and the M-Bahn maglev. The kilometre counter measures route length on the map; double track counts once. Today: 335 km S-Bahn, 141 km U-Bahn, 179 km tram. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Dates: Wikipedia (History of the Berlin S-Bahn, Geschichte der Berliner U-Bahn, Straßenbahn Berlin and the line articles), Wikidata Music: "Perspectives", "Healing" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) #berlin #sbahn #ubahn #tram #transitmap