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Large-profile line with ~110 m long platforms (6-car trains of F and H stock in service). On line U5, every other train terminates at Kaulsdorf-Nord during off-peak hours. The present U5 basically consists of an underground section opened in 1930 and a surface extension completed in 1988/89, with a short underground section from 1973 in between. Line U5 was once entirely located in East Berlin and was the only large-profile line in that part of the city. Although a western extension had been envisaged from the 1930s, this will not be realised before 2016. Operated as an isolated line, U55 eventually started operating a 3-station shuttle service in 2009. From 2010, the missing section between Alexanderplatz and Brandenburger Tor will be under construction. There will be intermediate stations at Unter den Linden (transfer to line U6), Museumsinsel (Humboldtforum / Schlossplatz) and Berliner Rathaus. Operated as an isolated line, U55 eventually started its 3-station shuttle service in 2009. From 2010, the missing section between Alexanderplatz and Brandenburger Tor will be under construction. There will be intermediate stations at Unter den Linden (transfer to line U6), Museumsinsel (Humboldtforum / Schlossplatz) and Berliner Rathaus.
21-12-1930:
Alexanderplatz - Friedrichsfelde Alexander Seefeldt & Robert Schwandl: Berliner U-Bahn-Linien - U5 Von Ost nach West. - April 2010, ISBN 978 3 836573 29 9 More info |
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Hauptbahnhof |  |
08-08-2009 Located on the far eastern side parallel to the underground tracks of the new central railway station opened in 2006. |
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Bundestag | 08-08-2009 |
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Brandenburger Tor | |
08-08-2009 Located parallel on the northern side of the existing S-Bahn station previously known as 'Unter den Linden' |
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| Alexanderplatz |
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21-12-1930 4-track station, with the outer tracks unused and once built in provision for a line to Weißensee.
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| Schillingstraße |
21-12-1930
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| Strausberger Platz |
21-12-1930
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| Weberwiese |
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21-12-1930
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| Frankfurter Tor |  |
21-12-1930
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| Samariterstraße |
21-12-1930
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| Frankfurter Allee |
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21-12-1930
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| Magdalenenstraße |
21-12-1930
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| Lichtenberg |
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21-12-1930 Underground station lying diagonally below the S-Bahn and mainline tracks.
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| Friedrichsfelde |
21-12-1930
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| Tierpark | |
25-06-1973
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| Biesdorf-Süd |
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01-07-1988 3-track station at grade
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| Elsterwerdaer Platz |
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01-07-1988 Island platform on an embankment.
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| Wuhletal | |
12-10-1913 Cross-platform interchange with S-Bahn line S5, with the U-Bahn on the inner tracks.
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| Kaulsdorf-Nord |
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01-07-1989 Terminus for every other train during off-peak periods; in a cutting.
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| Neue Grottkauer Str. |
01-07-1989 Island platform in a cutting. |
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| Cottbusser Platz |
01-07-1989 Island platform at grade |
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| Hellersdorf | |
01-07-1989 Island platform in a cutting, with direct access to tram platforms at street level |
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| Louis-Lewin-Straße |
01-07-1989 Island platform in a cutting |
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| Hönow |
01-07-1989 Stub-end 3-track terminus with island platform and one side platform; at grade. |
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2009 © UrbanRail.Net (Robert Schwandl)
Total
length: 18.4 km (9 km underground) +1.5 km (U55) - 20 stations + 3 (U55)
