Notes

It’s been a while, but I still have some pictures I like from my Berlin trip, so how about another one of them? Following the Ludmilla sighting, I made my way to the subway station “Warschauer Straße”, which is, as you’d expect, right next to the S-Bahn station of the same name.

It’s a beautiful station, with lots of metal, lots of rivets and lots of lights, and the white design makes the yellowish subway cars stand out rather well. Like surprisingly many cities, Berlin has two separate subway networks, even though marketing material usually pretends their one. This is the “Kleinprofil” (small loading gauge) one, which obviously uses smaller cars, but also a different electricity pickup (third-rail with top instead of bottom contact). The vehicles here are probably type A3L, a light-metal version of the A3 and basically a smaller version of the type D and later DL which were used on the “Großprofil” (large profile) network. The larger versions are now out of service, but you can still find this design for example here, on the U1.