Hauptbahnhof
Berlin Hauptbahnhof—Berlin’s main railway station—was brought into full operation two days after a ceremonial opening on 26 May 2006. The station occupies the ground once held by Lehrter Bahnhof, opened in 1871 as the terminus for trains between Berlin and Lehrte near Hanover, which later fed into Germany’s most important east–west main line. After World War II, services from Lehrter Bahnhof resumed briefly, but they were suspended again in 1951. Under railways reorganized for West Berlin after the division of Germany, the Lehrter Bahnhof was demolished in 1957—yet Lehrter Stadtbahnhof survived and continued as a stop on the Berlin S-Bahn. In 1882, with the completion of the four-track Stadtbahn, Lehrter Stadtbahnhof had been created to connect to that new line, and in 1987 it was extensively renovated to mark Berlin’s 750th anniversary. …
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