Sunday, January 16, 2011

Berlin's Anhalter Bahnhof - from giant station to remnant







Once one of Berlin's giant terminal stations - Kopfbahnhöfe - before WW2, all that is left of the Anhalter Bahnhof today is part of the front entrance.  It was badly damaged in WW2, but not irreparably: what led to its demise was the post-war division of Berlin into the Soviet and Western zones.  A brief history of the station is on this webpage.  Around the present entrance to the Anhalter S-Bahn station (underground here) are photos of the old days.

A scale model is available of it, produced by Märklin(?).

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