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node interchange Alexanderplatz is a set of stations and stops located in the Mitte district of Berlin, the largest and most famous square in the former East Berlin.
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elevated train station that serves the S-Bahn S3, S5, S7, S9 and S75;
* the three subway stations that serve the three underground lines U-Bahn U2, U5 and U8 ; *
the three tram stops at street level serving lines M2, M4, M5 and M6.
The train station is part of Stadtbahn Berlin metropolitan railway in four tracks (two reserved for traffic and two national to local) that crosses the center of the city from east to west.
The three underground stations together form one of the most important nodes interchange of Berlin.
During the division of Berlin, 1961 to 1989, the U8 line station was a ghost station in the sense that he was completely blind, and the trains did not stop the crossing. The stations of the lines U2 and U5 does work regularly and served the network of East Berlin.
line U5, which comes from Hönow and makes you stop, is interested in a project that will connect to the new Hauptbahnhof main train station, passing the route opened in 2009 between Hauptbahnhof and Unter den Linden, which took the provisional name line U55.
The three tram stops are: S + U Alexanderplatz / Gontardstraße (on the south-west) and U Alexanderplatz (near the entrance to the U-Bahn), for lines M4, M5 and M6, and S + U Alexanderplatz / Dircksenstrasse (on the north-east), the terminus of the M2 line.
The stages of the development of node were as follows:
* February 7, 1882: opening of the railway station on Stadtbahn,
* 1 July 1913 opening of the subway station U2,
* 1928: Electrification of Stadtbahn,
* 1930: Opening of the S-Bahn lines,
* April 18, 1930: opening of the subway station U8,
* December 21, 1930: opening of the U5 subway station.
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