Gleisdreieck (Berlin U-Bahn)

Metro Station Railway Triangle is an above-ground subway station in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg district of Friedrichshain- Kreuzberg, on the U1 and U2 intersect at two levels.

Plant

Metro Station Railway Triangle is a tower station. The lower platform on the U2 line is 103 meters long and is located ten meters above the road. The upper platform of the U1 line is 110 meters long and is partly covered by a 81 -meter-long hall. It lies 15 meters above the road. Both platforms are connected by an elevator, another elevator leading from the platform of the U2 to the street, so the station is wheelchair accessible.

To the west is the large untapped area of ​​the former Potsdamer freight station, which is under crossed by long distance railway tunnel.

History

Today, the name reversing triangle has nothing to do with the eponymous form and function. By 1912, the branching trains ran here actually in a track triangle. As early as 1907 there were plans to build a railway junction at this point. They were not initially realized.

Accidents: He decided to build

On September 26, 1908 two trains ran in opposite directions - one from Leipziger Platz, the other from the Buelowstrasse coming - at reversing triangle. Both arc on the track at the same triangle in the direction Moeckernbruecke from, the coming of the Leipziger Platz train ran over the signal to "stop " standing.

There was an edge away. The first car of the train approached rushed out of eight meters on the underlying space. 17 people died, moreover, 18 were seriously injured. [Note 1] The driver, who had disregarded the signal, was sentenced to a prison term of one year and nine months.

After another - similar but less serious consequences - accident on May 17, 1911, the railway branch was from the summer of 1912 repealed and planned a new railway station, where the trains crossed over each other. The designs came from Sepp emperor.

Construction

The railway station was built triangle in high position between the subjects track the hitchhiker, Dresden, master and Wannseebahn 1912/1913.

The first was built lower platform is broad, so that the necessary preliminary transfer traffic could be managed. The present form as a tower station with two tracks in a clip Nollendorfplatz and the upper platform has existed since the commissioning of the relief route in 1926, which is now traversed by the line U1.

In a divided city

On track triangle ended after the Wall on August 13, 1961, the line A ( from 1966: Line 2 ) for which began in the early 1950s, turning facilities were secured. Since this operation was no longer economically without Continue in the Mitte district, the trains ended after 1 January 1972 at Wittenberg Platz (from 1984: U2 ). However, the line B availed continue the station track triangle ( from 1966: Line 1, from 1984: U1) and held at the upper platform, on which the passengers came through the passage of the resting lower platform.

Between 1984 and 1991 the lower platform was a terminus of the monorail M -Bahn, the wrong from here to the Kemper Platz Train Station. After the Berlin Wall, the M -Bahn was dismantled in favor of reopening the subway. Its reconstruction took two years to complete, so that the U -Bahn line U2 on November 13 in 1993 could continuously run from Ruhleben on track triangle Vinetastraße.

After the reunification

To renew the outdated annual railway station, the Berlin public transport began in 2009 with a major renovation of the tracks, the platforms and the access routes and of roof areas of the station building. The total cost would amount to about twelve million euros, in September 2012, the renovation should be completed. Under this construction of the station receives up to 2013 several lifts, so a use of the station is accessible possible. The first lift was on 30 September 2010 in operation, the second followed on 19 April 2012.

The construction of the S- Bahn line S21 is scheduled for a future interchange with a suburban train. The S-Bahn station is to be located parallel to the platform of U2.

Park

The term track triangle is understood in the former goods stations of Potsdamer Platz and pickup station now also 60 hectares of Berlin project development area. In sub-areas of the park is being built here at the track triangle.

Film and Television

• In the environment of the high station of the German FDF feature film track triangle plays ( 1936/1937 ).
• Bülowbogen In the ARD TV series practice there was a homeless man who was called " reversing triangle " (played by Klaus Schwarzkopf ). This nickname referred to the favorite residence of the homeless, the site of the Berlin wye.
• In the feature film Emil and the Detectives from the year 2001, a scene takes place on the platform of the subway station. The station is to be identified because a sign with the station name is briefly captured by the camera.

Connection

The underground station is operated exclusively by the U1 and U2; a transit traffic to other lines of the Berlin transport does not exist.