A Famous Railway Station From Berlin On A Post Card ...

... from beginning of XX Century




Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse

It is located on the Friedrichstraße, a major north-south street in the Mitte district of Berlin, adjacent to the point where the street crosses the Spree river. Underneath the station is the metro station Friedrichstraße.

Due to its central location in Berlin and its proximity to attractions such as the Unter den Linden boulevard, the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag, the station is a favorite destination for tourists. At the same time, it is the main junction for regional traffic in Berlin, measured by the number of passengers.


About its very interesting history ( including Border crossing during the cold war ) read here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin...%9Fe_station


Unfortunately this p.c. is not in my collection .

Neat. I like the buses too.

Here's another one. Berlin Ontario you say? Yup, it's the old name for Kitchener which got changed during WWI. Good read about it here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin..._name_change

I remember in 1969/70, the Kitchener railway station had a swastika pattern around the floor which no-one seems to have noticed during WWII

YeaPolska, Greetings:

Nice card.

"... a swastika pattern around the floor which no-one seems to have noticed during WWII"

Or, perhaps, they considered it their patriotic duty to walk on it?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Wow very interesting image! I love the old electric and steamer cars! Neat stuff!

The Friedrichstrasse Station played an important role in Len Deighton's Bernard Sampson trilogies (Game, Set, Match; Hook, Line, Sinker, etc.

There are numerous movies that include scenes filmed at the Friedrichstrasse station:

In the Bourne Supremacy, Jason Bourne escapes the police by leaping off the bridge in front of the station onto a boat below.

The movie The Legend of Rita has numerous scenes where the RAF terrorists use the station to escape to East Berlin.

In addition, the East German spy Werner Stiller describes his escape through the station in his memoirs Beyond the Wall.

In Mr Norris Changes Trains, novelist Christopher Isherwood has William Bradshaw eating ham and eggs with Arthur Norris at the first class restaurant of the station.

In Call of Duty: World at War, the station is used as a means of escape for the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin.