This architectural photograph shows the platform at Berlin Central Station in the Tiergarten district of Berlin. I photographed the motif with the Nikon D90 in 2014.
Berlin Hauptbahnhof, colloquially known as Berlin Central Station, is the most important passenger railway station in Berlin and the largest tower station in Europe. With a daily passenger volume of 329,000 travellers and visitors, it is the fourth busiest long-distance railway station in Germany after Hamburg, Frankfurt (Main) and Munich. The junction station with 14 platform tracks is a transfer point between long-distance passenger transport (Intercity-Express, Intercity/EuroCity, ÖBB Nightjet, Flixtrain) and local passenger transport (S-Bahn, Regionalbahn, Regional-Express). Around 1300 long-distance and local trains stop at the station every day.
The striking building was designed by the architect Meinhard von Gerkan. Together with the station, a new north-south railway line through the Nord-Süd-Fernbahn tunnel was put into operation on 28 May 2006, realising a complete conversion and reorganisation of rail passenger transport in Berlin through the so-called "mushroom concept".
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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 a passionate travel..
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