Nordbahnhof ghost stations exhibition

Nordbahnhof – ghost station exhibition - darkometer rating : 3 - A small topical exhibition in a restored Berlin underground regional metro train station, which itself used to be a ghost station during the Berlin Wall era of the division of Germany . > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: With the division of Germany post WWII into East and West, and in particular that of Berlin , with West Berlin having become an enclave inside the Soviet Zone/the GDR , several train lines, and stations on them, became obsolete because they traversed this Cold War border and thus became dead ends. Nordbahnhof was one such example – another good one is Anhalter Bahnhof . With the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 came the final straw for those stations and most of the above-ground mainline train station of Nordbahnhof was completely erased – in this case it was also victim to the deliberate clearing of the border strip, as the station sat right on the border, with exits on both the Eastern and the Western side. Underground, however, several metro and regional metro train lines still crossed this border – namely in the form of lines that had only a few stations under East Berlin territory and were allowed to continue running on these lines to connect with the rest of the line back on the Western side. But trains were not allowed to stop at the stations, now in the East, they had to go straight through. This applied in particular to a few lines running straight through the very centre of Berlin.