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| Crossing the Berlin border on the S-Bahn (late '80s) |
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This was one of the standard East/West Berlin
crossings: the S-Bahn Friedrichstrasse station.
The station was in East Berlin and was itself
divided in half - one part being the end station
of an eastern line, the other part being the end
station of a line going to West Berlin. To walk
from the "eastern" to the "western" part of the
station you had to go through the passport and
customs controls, obviously. On the "western" part
of the station one could purchase things like
cigarettes and alcohol duty-free (for western
marks) so it was not uncommon to see drunks from
West Berlin popping in at the Friedrichstrasse
station buying some liquor and going back West (no
control). That sort of folklore went way beyond
James Bond, IMHO :-)
This clip begins at Friedrichstrasse as we've just
hopped on a westbound S-Bahn. Soon after the train
takes off, we are inside the wall, you can see the
no man's land as the tracks run parallel to it for
a while. The actual border is seen just before
pulling into the first station in the West
(Lehrter Stadtbahnhof) - it's the boundary between
the water and the land in the canal we cross over.
Another train is leaving back to Friedrichstrasse
(carrying those drunks and cigarette smugglers
perhaps?) and we walk closer to the Reichstag from
where one can see the train tracks we've just
ridden along. Another S-Bahns go both ways plus a
random long distance train leaving East Berlin.
NOTE: I added a reverse angle view in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwzFBATwXuY
Tags : Berlin Wall Mauer Friedrichstraße Lehrter Stadtbahnhof S-Bahn Grenzübergang |
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