Berlin Central Station
This central railway site remembers Lehrter Bahnhof, opened in 1871 as the Berlin terminus on the line to Lehrte near Hanover—later becoming part of the route that carried Germany’s most important east–west main-line traffic. In 1882, the completion of Berlin’s four-track Stadtbahn nearby led to the opening of Lehrter Stadtbahnhof, an interchange that later became part of the Berlin S-Bahn. After heavy World War II damage, service to the main station was resumed and then suspended in 1951; Lehrter Bahnhof was demolished in 1957, while Lehrter Stadtbahnhof continued as an S-Bahn stop and was renovated in 1987 to commemorate Berlin’s 750th anniversary. When Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Central Station) arrived, it did so with an engineered sense of continuity: it was opened for full operation two days after a ceremonial opening on 26 May 2006, and it is owned by DB InfraGO, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG. …
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