The first railway system map from August 1961 shows the system in the month the communists in charge of East Germany put the Berlin wall up, severing railways - U-Bahn and S-Bahn - that crossed from west to east Berlin, although a few survived, including a U-Bahn line that passed from west to west through territory in the east without stopping. Stations in the east's territory become ghost stations for these trains.
In the last 20 years lines have been (re)built with the new Hauptbahnhof or main station where the former Lehrter Bahnhof was, served with intersecting trains on different levels: a certain resemblance to the artwork by the German futurist Klaus Bürgl in our post of 8 December about art inspired by the film Metropolis.
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