Berlin Subway tunnels

Apr

23

2015

Subway Tunnels

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Kloster Tunnel

: Kloster Tunnel, being located between Alexanderplatz and Klosterstraße station, connects U2 line with Waisen Tunnel

: The shield drive tunnel of U55 line under Brandenburg Gate

: Tele lens view through the tube of Waisen Tunnel in Berlin

: Train of U2 line headed to Ruhleben in the tunnel between Alexanderplatz and Klosterstraße stations

: Out of town towards Schlossstraße going train of U9 line at the disconnected U10 turnout

: Guided tour in the Berlin Subway, standing at the junction where Waisen Tunnel meets U8 line

: Built in advance, the Innsbrucker Platz station hall of Berlin’s yet never begun U10 line

: Abandoned Eisack Tunnel, once planned and built for trains of Berlin’s U4 line to reach its southern reversal and repair facilities

: Train of Berlin U9 line inside the joint tunnel of U9 and U10 line right after having departed Berlin-Steglitz station

: Winding Kloster Tunnel connects U2 line with Waisen Tunnel

: 1966 until 1970 U5 line was in West Berlin, leading through that tunnel pointing towards U7 station Richard-Wagner-Platz

: City centre-bound view of the tunnel of Berlin U9 line towards Walther-Schreiber-Platz (Schlossallee station in the back)

: Evacuation information in U55 tunnel

: Tunnel (structural work) of U10 line inside U10 station Berlin-Steglitz

: U55 Train in Transit

: Transit of a U9 train inside tunnel near Schlossstraße station produces a light trail

: Tunnel and rails of U10 line after having left U10 station Berlin-Steglitz (structural work)

: The old U5 tunnel between Deutsche Oper and Bismarckstraße stations

: Warning sign along the track of old U5 tunnel to the west of Deutsche Oper station

: Advance construction works (structural work) for U10 station Berlin-Steglitz

: Tunnel walk of “AG Berliner U-Bahn” along U55 line. With a depth of 18m that area is the deepest spot of Berlin’s subway network.

: Train of U2 line headed for Pankow in the tunnel after having left Klosterstraße station

: Through this tube of Waisen Tunnel Dieter Wendt and his family escaped into the West back in 1980

: Built in advance, the Innsbrucker Platz station hall of Berlin’s yet never begun U10 line

: Safety signal int the U55 tunnel

: Passageways between the tunnel tubes of Waisen Tunnel also meant protection from trains running

: View through the buttress colonnade of old U5 tunnel towards Deutsche Oper station

: Abandoned Eisack Tunnel, once planned and built for trains of Berlin’s U4 line to reach its southern reversal and repair facilities

: Built in advance, the Innsbrucker Platz station hall of Berlin’s yet never begun U10 line

: The red line on white background symbolises danger of life as there’s no space between wall and trains passing by. Linesmen could hide in such notches though.

: Abandoned Eisack Tunnel, once planned and built for trains of Berlin’s U4 line to reach its southern reversal and repair facilities

: Tunnel of old U5 line, that realised transportation between Deutsche Oper (U2) and Richard-Wagner-Platz (U7) stations from 1966 until 1970.

: Red on white warning sign saying, that standing here means danger of life as there’s no space left to hide from trains

: Built in advance, the Innsbrucker Platz station hall of Berlin’s yet never begun U10 line

: Rail unobtainable! Partially demolished rail of Waisen Tunnel in Berlin

: Door of a technical BVG service room in Berlin’s underground

: Entrance to shield tunnelled part of U55 tunnel between Bundestag and Brandenburg Gate station

: U55 tunnel walk

: Train of U2 line waiting for its entry into service for the first underground ride of a new day

: U55 Tunnel shortly after Hauptbahnhof station

: Y-junction of Kloster Tunnel (right) leading into the route of Waisen Tunnel (left)

: Tele lens view through the tube of Waisen Tunnel

: Northern end of Kloster Tunnel connecting U2 line with Waisen Tunnel

: Verbindungstunnel abzweigend von der Linie U2 zum Klostertunnel

: Advance construction works (structural work) for U10 station Berlin-Steglitz

: Waisen Tunnel once made a connection between Alexanderplatz and the U8 line to the south of Jannowitzbrücke station

: Junction where Waisentunnel meets U8 line

: Due to conversion works at the Alexanderplatz reversal facility the rail inside Waisen Tunnel got cut off in 2016