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U-Bahn and first
The first section of the modern U-Bahn opened on 8 May 1976, but two of the lines extended and later designated as U-Bahn ( U4, U6 ) date back to the Stadtbahn (" city railway ") system, which first opened in 1898.
There was also an unfortunate politicisation of the U-Bahn issue: in the 1954 and 1959 city council elections, the conservative Austrian People's Party championed construction of a U-Bahn, but the more powerful Social Democratic Party of Austria campaigned for putting housing first.
On 25 February 1978, the first Vienna U-Bahn route between Karlsplatz and Reumannplatz, the U1, went into operation.
For the first time in Europe, a U-Bahn project had to undergo a costly and lengthy environmental impact assessment, as the U2 extension showed a length of more than 10 km ( 6. 2 mi ).
The reopening of Jannowitzbrücke U-Bahn station on 11 November 1989, the first of the ghost stations to be reopened after the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Alfred Frederik Elias Grenander, ( 26 June 1863 in Skövde, Sweden – 14 March 1931 in Berlin ), was one of the most prominent architects during the first building period of the Berlin U-Bahn in the first half of the twentieth century.
From 1897 he worked as a designer of the Hochbahngesellschaft, an affiliate of Siemens & Halske, which built the first U-Bahn elevated railway of Berlin.
The exceptionally richly designed station opened on February 18, 1902, on the first Berlin U-Bahn line erected by the Siemens & Halske company ( the Stammstrecke ).
The station on the first Berlin U-Bahn line from Potsdamer Platz to Stralauer Tor was opened on February 18, 1902 on a viaduct above Skalitzer Straße.
The station on the first Berlin U-Bahn line from Potsdamer Platz to Stralauer Tor was opened on February 18, 1902.
The U1 platform on a viaduct at the banks of the Landwehrkanal opened on 18 February 1902 with Berlin's first U-Bahn line ( Stammstrecke ) from Stralauer Tor to Potsdamer Platz.
The station located on a viaduct at the northern shore of the Landwehrkanal is part of the first Stammstrecke route of the Berlin U-Bahn opened on February 15, 1902.
The station's name literally means " railway triangle " or wye in English and marks the spot of an earlier major train hub opened in 1902, where the three branches of the first Stammstrecke U-Bahn line from Zoologischer Garten, Potsdamer Platz and Warschauer Brücke met.
The first section of the Berlin U-Bahn to be built included an elevated section between Gleisdreieck and Potsdamer Platz stations.
Public transport in Vienna was improved by the introduction of the new U-Bahn network, the first part of which was opened in 1978.
The newer portion of the borough of Zehlendorf developed around extended U-Bahn service in the first third of the 20th Century.
The first stretch of newly constructed U-Bahn rail was placed in operation in 1978 ( U1 from Reumannplatz to Karlsplatz ).
On March 11, 1902 the first Berlin U-Bahn line, today the U2, was opened under ground.

U-Bahn and from
In Taut's case, the housing he built in south-west Berlin during the 1920s, is still occupied, and can be reached by going easily from the U-Bahn stop Onkel Toms Hütte.
Founded by German merchant Georg Wertheim ( 1857 – 1939 ), designed by architect Alfred Messel ( 1853 – 1909 ), opened in 1897 and extended several times over the following 40 years, it ultimately possessed a floor area double that of the Reichstag, a 330-metre-long granite and plate glass facade along Leipziger Straße, 83 elevators, three escalators, 1, 000 telephones, 10, 000 lamps, five kilometres of pneumatic tubing for moving items from the various departments to the packing area, and a separate entrance directly from the nearby U-Bahn station.
The new U-Bahn station was being built at the same time as the hotel and actually ran through the hotel's basement, cutting it in half, thus making the construction of both into something of a technical challenge, but unlike the Wertheim department store ( and contrary to several sources ), the hotel did not enjoy a separate entrance directly from the station.
The U-Bahn and S-Bahn were partially operational again from 2 June 1946, fully from 16 November 1947 ( although repairs were not completed until May 1948 ) and trams by 1952.
Below ground, the U-Bahn section through Potsdamer Platz had closed entirely ; although the S-Bahn line itself remained open, it suffered from a quirk of geography in that it briefly passed through East German territory en route from one part of West Berlin to another.
The closest underground stop is " Simmering " ( Vienna U-Bahn, line U3 ), about 2 km away from the cemetery.
As an example of the GDR regime's desire for hard currency, in the 1980s, in the Berlin Friedrichstraße subway ( U-Bahn ) station, there was an Intershop kiosk on the platform of the U6 line created specifically for travellers from West Berlin who may not have wanted to pass through the GDR border controls.
It was not until 2002 that the Ringbahn was operated again in its entirety and Jungfernheide enjoyed a status as an important interchange between S-Bahn and U-Bahn, owing to its being served by direct trains from the majority of Berlin's central districts.
The U-Bahn station was opened on 1 October 1980 ( designed by R. G. Rümmler ) the extension of the from Richard-Wagner-Platz to Rohrdamm.
A special case involved the Friedrichstraße train station in East Berlin, which one could reach from West Berlin by U-Bahn, S-Bahn or long-distance train.
The O-Bahn – from the Latin omnibus (" for all people ") and the German bahn ( railway, as in S-Bahn and U-Bahn ) – was conceived by Daimler-Benz to enable buses to avoid traffic congestion by sharing tram tunnels in the German city of Essen.
The bodies of the Siemens Modular Metro trains evolved from the 1993 DT2 Series used in the Nuremberg U-Bahn whose design in turn came from production of the A Series built for the nearby Munich U-Bahn, but now also used in Nuremberg.
The Fröttmaning subway station was expanded from two to four tracks, while the Marienplatz U-Bahn station was outfitted with additional pedestrian connector tunnels running parallel to the subway tracks, which lead towards the S-Bahn portion of the station, lessening congestion among passengers making connections to the Munich S-Bahn.
It became desirable to re-establish the U-Bahn line that had previously been severed, requiring the removal of the M-Bahn from its right of way.

U-Bahn and south
* U-Bahn station in the middle of the road – It is the south entrance of Französische Straße U-Bahn station.

U-Bahn and ;
A new U-Bahn station has also been built at Potsdamer Platz itself, although a decision is still pending on whether to proceed with completion of the line passing through it ; in the meantime the station area serves as an impromptu art gallery and exhibition space.
German tram-train systems are generally called Stadtbahn ; only two among them feature premetro sections, although a metro ( U-Bahn ) has never been planned there:
Improvements to the infrastructure were needed ; in 1896 the construction of the subway ( U-Bahn ) began and was completed in 1902.
" Linie 1 ", a musical performed by Berlin's Grips-Theater, is set completely in stations and trains of the Berlin U-Bahn ; a movie version has also been produced.
The video shows a cross dressed Doom Schneider dressed as Armin Meiwes's mother, Till being fellated by an angel before he eats her wings and kills her ; Flake performing ballet in a hallucinatory state ; Paul shaking, screaming violently and wandering around the set in a frantic and crazed state ; Richard violently fighting with his doppelgänger ; Ollie writhing on the floor in painful spasms with his skin covered in white powder ; the band fighting in a mudpit ; and five of the band members, while behaving like dogs, crawling out of the Deutsche Oper U-Bahn ( subway ) station while held on leashes carried by Christoph Schneider.
Vienna U-Bahn trains of both types leaving Längenfeldgasse station: left, standard train on line U4 with third rail power ; right, T-cars train on U6 powered by overhead lines
U4 train of the Vienna U-Bahn running on track of the former Stadtbahn ; Hofpavillon Hietzing station designed for the Imperial family in 1899 by Otto Wagner
U-Bahn construction at Karlsplatz and Kärntner Straße, 1973 ; tram running on temporary trestle
One of the buildings is now used as an exhibition space by the Vienna Museum, with an U-Bahn entrance in its rear ; the other is used as a café.
During rush hours, many routes run at intervals of two to five minutes ; during evening hours, the U-Bahn runs at 7 and a half minute intervals and trams and buses every ten or 15 minutes.
Further cutbacks are expected in the next few years as the U-Bahn continues to expand ; however, extensions and new lines are also planned, above all in the 21st and 22nd districts.
It was the final stop in West Berlin ; the next station, Berlin Friedrichstraße, was in the Soviet zone, although it served as a stop on both the West Berlin S-and U-Bahn systems ; these parts of the station were sealed off and inaccessible to East Berliners.

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