Gleisdreieck U-bahn elevated railway station serves the U 1/U 3 and the U 2 lines on two platforms in Kreuzberg Berlin. The station was built in 1912-1913 and both platforms are elevated above ground level but the U1/U3 platform is at a higher level and at right angles to the U2 platform. The station's name means "railway triangle" and it is located on the site of an earlier station that opened in 1902. Three branches of the first Stammstrecke U-Bahn line from Zoologischer Garten, Potsdamer Platz and Warschauer Brücke met here. Following a major train collision in 1908 and a subsequent further
Gleisdreieck U-bahn elevated railway station serves the U 1/U 3 and the U 2 lines on two platforms in Kreuzberg Berlin. The station was built in 1912-1913 and both platforms are elevated above ground level but the U1/U3 platform is at a higher level and at right angles to the U2 platform. The station's name means "railway triangle" and it is located on the site of an earlier station that opened in 1902. Three branches of the first Stammstrecke U-Bahn line from Zoologischer Garten, Potsdamer Platz and Warschauer Brücke met here. Following a major train collision in 1908 and a subsequent further accident the single level triangle from 1912 was rebuilt and replaced by the current two-level station. The station sustained serious damage during bombing raids in WW2 and the upper platform was destroyed. After the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 the lower platform became the eastern terminus of the U2 until the service was discontinued on 1 January 1972. The U2 train service on the lower platform was resumed on 13 November 1993.
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Location: U Gleisdreieck, Kreuzberg, Berlin
Photo credit: © Eden Breitz / Alamy / Afripics
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