Platforms at Berlin Central Station in the Moabit district by Silva Wischeropp

This photographic urban shot shows the hall in and railway tracks at Berlin Hauptbahnhof in the Berlin district of Moabit in the city district of Mitte.
Berlin Hauptbahnhof is the most important passenger railway station in Berlin and also the largest tower railway station in Europe. With around 330,000 travellers and visitors daily, it is the fourth busiest long-distance station of Deutsche Bahn after Hamburg, Frankfurt (Main) and Munich and is one of the 21 stations in the highest price category 1 of DB Station&Service. It is comparatively heavily relieved by the other three price class 1 stations and metropolitan stations of regional transport in Berlin.

The station building has two main levels serving rail traffic and three connecting and commercial levels. The upper track level consists of six tracks on four bridge structures. The two outer ones are single-track and the inner ones are double-track. In between are three platforms at a height of around ten metres above street level.
On the lower track level there are four platforms with the eight tracks of the north-south connection at a depth of 15 metres. Adjacent to this to the east is another platform with two tracks of the U5 underground line. To the east of the underground station, a similar double-track platform is currently being built as part of the S21 suburban railway project.
The bridges on the Stadtbahn level span not only the station area but also the adjoining Humboldthafen and are therefore around 680 m long. They are curved in plan in accordance with the alignment of the urban railway and widen from 39 to 66 m in width due to the widening from four to six tracks and the additional platforms. The Humboldthafen Bridge with a span of 60 m spans the Humboldthafen. It consists of an arch with steel pipes and a prestressed concrete beam as the upper chord.

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Silva Wischeropp was born in the Hanseatic city of Wismar in the former GDR. Today she lives and works in Berlin. As an experienced and passionate travel photographer whose interests span a broad range, she focuses on portraiture, street life, reportage, documentary, travel, tourism, landscape and nature. In addition, she is known for her recordings in the fields of architecture and fashion. Since 2016, her new repertoire includes surreal digital photo collages. For 20 years she has been known in Germany and abroad as a creative photo artist. Her works have been widely published and exhibited. "The photographic image process represents my personal work and creation area. This means dealing with image worlds, politics, human needs and sensitivities. The camera expands my scope to meet that other reality. Photography makes me happy, creates joy, closes boundaries, opens new doors, widens horizons. The camera teaches me to see, to sharpen the view, to capture moments, to perceive fleeting moments that are not visible to others. I am a creative person, a picture-maker, who draws on herself, does not copy a lot and develops her own imagery. So I move between the poles, reach different fixed points, look behind the scenes. Out of the thousandfold existing I manage to bring out something unique, unique moments of the picture."

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