Berlin Wall: What happened to the trains?

Berlin Wall: What happened to the trains?

At the end of the Second World War, Berlin, like the rest of Germany, was divided by the Allied Powers. Soon, the zones would become two separate countries, West and East Berlin. In 1961, the division of Berlin became far more physical with the construction of the Berlin Wall. But what happened to Berlin's U-Bahn and S-Bahn trains?

David Frankal explores how Berlin's rail network was divided during the Cold War, and, after the Berlin Wall fell, how it was put back together again.

Disclaimer: This video is not original research and should not be treated as an academic source. Most of the information contained in the video is factual information from Wikipedia or Merrill (2015) (see below). The small bit of commentary at the end is my own. Images, footage and maps are my own unless labelled otherwise.

Watch Part 2, which will shed a bit more light on Berlin's mainline rail network, how Berlin's shiny new Hauptbahnhof came about, and what happened to all of Berlin's old stations from before the war:
A Brief History of Berlin's Railways ...

Further reading/source (Merrill 2015):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Featuring footage from citytransportinfo:
citytransportinfo

And thank you to Max Roberts (Tube Map Central) for the use of his digitally recreated Berlin S-Bahn Map:
http://tubemapcentral.com/

Music from YouTube Library & Incompetech
https://incompetech.com/music/