Category: Operations/City
Statement: Mass Transit, Serving Diverse Urban Functions
Accompanying Items: Additional Signs, Advertisements, Operational Documents
The Berlin S-Bahn plays a crucial role in everyday life, whether commuting to work, shopping, catching a movie, or heading to Müggelsee. It also handles special occasions—a football match at the Olympiastadion, horse races in Karlshorst, or hundreds of thousands of young people gathered at Alexanderplatz in 1973 for the World Festival of Youth. Special schedules and extra trains are required during such events, creating a busy time for the railway staff.
Today, the only remaining special event station is at the Olympiastadion, which dates back to before World War I. It was expanded for the 1936 Olympics when it was called "Reichssportfeld." The signs were later repainted to "Olympiastadion" and remained in place until the 1990s. When they were removed, pieces of shrapnel dating back to World War II, fell out from behind the signs...