Potsdamer Platz and Station, Berlin - 2

 

a 1927 postcard with the traffic controller inside the tower

the U-Bahn station, 1900s

the U Bahn station, interwar period

the main Potsdamer Bahnhof terminal railway station

the station is in the centre

a view looking west from 1931 with the station on the left.

all quiet in no-man's land - another view after the Communists built their Wall.

The Potsdamer Bahnhof mainline terminal station in these pics was opened in 1872. By 1939 it saw 83,000 passengers a day. But it was a victim of war damage and, like Potsdamer Platz itself, the post-WW2 division of Berlin. The U Bahn and S-Bahn stations were caught in the division too, and not restored until the collapse of the Wall.  The S-Bahn below ground station was rebuilt to incorporate a main line station. Where the old Potsdamer Bahnhof mainline station once stood is a long landscaped strip of land named after the Austrian actress Tilla Durieux.