DE-3045399 Berlin Warschauer Straße station, Germany

Berlin Warschauer Straße station is an S-Bahn and U-Bahn station, collectively known as S+U Warschauer Straße, named after Warsaw. It is located on Warschauer Straße on the northeastern bank of the river Spree in the Friedrichshain neighborhood of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district of Berlin, Germany. The two train stations as well as the street tram that terminates adjacent to the U-Bahn station together accommodate over 85,000 passengers daily

The Warschauer Straße S-Bahn station is located on the eastern side of Warschauer Bridge.  The station building was heavily damaged due to the destruction of Warschauer Bridge during World War II and required extensive reconstruction and alteration. The station remained largely unchanged for decades. Warschauer Straße station was reconstructed in 1983, and a new platform opened on 20 December 1986. This was in order to provide greater transport access to the increasingly developed northeast districts of the city, Neu-Hohenschönhausen and Marzahn. Due to a lack of maintenance, the station building developed acute structural defects and was closed in late 2004. As part of a long term renovation and reconstruction project for S-Bahn Ostkreuz, Warschauer Straße, and Ostbahnhof stations, a new reception building and two new central platforms are being built at S-Bahn Warschauer Straße station. Currently there is construction going on to build a new building for a new station.  It is scheduled to be opened in 2016.

 

This great photo came from Harald of Colgone, Germany (3 April, 2014).