with almost 40,000 kilometres of track, germany s rail network is the longest in europe, which makes it the perfect place to explore by train. but from berlin s vast central station, train. but from berlin s vast centralstation, i m train. but from berlin s vast central station, i m taking an even cheaperform of central station, i m taking an even cheaper form of transport for a spot of sightseeing. all right, we re doing it. we are crossing the tramway. fabulous. 0h, crossing the tramway. fabulous. oh, it s beautiful. i can see the tower on my left. and it s so cloudy, the tip of it is just unseen. alexander platts is these days the touristic heart of the capital. until 1989, it was the main public square in communist east berlin. i was born in 1990, which is a year after the berlin wall came down, so for myself and i m sure for a generation younger, there is no recollection of those news events. so being able to be here and just get a sense of what it might have been like i
measure introduced in 2023, initially atjust 9 euros each. i do love a train who doesn t? so i m planning to take them to criss cross the country and get a better look at the close relationship between germans and their railways. from berlin s iconic u bahn, to the incredible hanging overhead railway of the industrial west, to the makeshift island trains of the northern coast. the water, the lights this is stunning. i m here to see how engineering and a bit of imagination have led to a network like no other. with almost 40,000 km of track, germany s rail network is the longest in europe, which makes it the perfect place to explore by train. but from berlin s vast central station, i m taking an even cheaper form of transport for a spot of sightseeing. all right, we re doing it. we are crossing the tramway. fabulous. oh, it s beautiful. i can see the tv tower on my left, and it s so cloudy, the tip of it is just about unseen. alexanderplatz is these days the touristic heart
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To wait on board until they got safely four stops down that way. This was effectively a ghost station. They were manned, guarded you definitelyjust could not get off. Athena kerins leads tours for a group called berlin underworlds, which explores the tunnels and passageways underneath the city. So, alexanderplatz would have been a ghost station. Really eerie. What would that have been like . So, for the West Berliners coming through, it would have been dark, a little bit eerie. Just the glowing Emergency Exit signs, maybe a bit of Light Creeping in from the tunnels itself. For the east berliners, it wouldve been completely different because they werent allowed to know about this at all because if they knew that it was coming through here, they might be tempted to try to get into the Train Station or the tunnels and use them to escape. But even before those 28 years of division, the tunnels down here