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German Railways 1996

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Wuppetal HBf

22 June 1996



Boat on River Spree going under Berlin Friedrichstrasse station

23 June 1996



Coal barges on the River Spree with the Reichstag being rebuilt in the background

23 June 1996



Coal barges passing under Freidrichstrasse station

23 June 1996



Berlin double-decked bus

23 June 1996



The Brandenburg Gate

23 June 1996



The site of the Berlin Wall at Potsdammer Platz

23 June 1996



Brandenburg Gate from Unter den Lintern

23 June 1996



The west end of Berlin Ostbahnhof under reconstruction

23 June 1996



Looking east the long-distance tracks are all truncated with buffer stops

23 June 1996



Outside the west end of Ostbahnhof

23 June 1996



Ex-DR 232 560 on the (temporary) blocks at Ostbahnhof

23 June 1996



View from about a mile east of Ostbahnhof looking west with the trainshed of Ostbahnhof visible in the distance

23 June 1996



Warschauer Strasse terminus of Berlin U-Bahn line U1

23 June 1996



One of the ornate stations on the elevated section of line U1 with a double-decked bus squeezing underneath.

23 June 1996



A Guide Friday (of Stratford upon Avon) tour bus in Berlin

23 June 1996

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I was born in 1953 and educated at Tonbridge and Bristol University. Since then I have been employed on the Railways, most of the time in the West Midlands. From 1980 I lived in Wolverhampton, and for the last 20 years in Bridgnorth