Berlin U-Bahn: Ghost Stations, the Wall and 9 Lines, 1902 → 2040 | Animated Map

From the first elevated line of 1902 to the extensions planned for 2040: watch the Berlin U-Bahn grow, line by line, on a real geographic map. Rival cities like Schöneberg and Charlottenburg building their own lines, the 1920s boom, the bombs and floods of 1945, and then 28 years of a divided city: from 1961 West Berlin trains ran under East Berlin without stopping, through dimly lit, guarded ghost stations. The film follows them closing and reopening, the U2 and U1 being cut and joined again, the long reach of the U7 to Spandau and Rudow, the U5 under Unter den Linden in 2020, and ends with the planned extensions to Mexikoplatz, Pankow Kirche, the Märkisches Viertel and BER Airport. Chapters 0:00 1896 – Building an elevated railway 0:14 1902 – The first line, on an iron viaduct 1:13 1910 – Rival cities build their own lines 2:07 1923 – The city's North-South line and the 1920s boom 3:43 1930 – Line E 4:01 1940 – War and ruins 5:06 1956 – Two cities, two networks 5:30 1961 – The Wall and the ghost stations 5:51 1966 – West Berlin builds out: U7 and U9 7:46 1989 – The Wall falls, the ghost stations reopen 8:22 1993 – One network again 9:03 2009 – The U55 and the U5 under Unter den Linden 9:39 2022 – Today, and the plans to 2040 All 9 U-Bahn lines of the BVG (U1 to U9) and the U55 shuttle (2009–2020), 175 stations today. Not included: the S-Bahn, trams and the M-Bahn maglev. Station names are today's names. Dashed: planned extensions, opening dates are targets. The kilometre counter measures route length on the map, without double counting shared track. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Dates: Wikipedia (List of Berlin U-Bahn stations, the line articles and Geschichte der Berliner U-Bahn), Wikidata Music: "Wholesome", "Lightless Dawn" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) #berlin #berlinubahn #ubahn #metro #transitmap