January 2010 in Berlin - Cold and White
Posted on January 31, 2010
We are now into our seventh week of snow here in Berlin and the daily trek through the snow is becoming a little bit wearing.. during this seven week period we’ve had two periods of extreme temperatures.. down to -24°C at night, with -19°C in the daytime.
The frozen Spree at Treptower Park
A slideshow of some of my ’snowy’ photos can be viewed on Flickriver by clicking here!
I haven’t been able to write as much as I’d like in January… In fact nothing at all.. Due to other commitments I haven’t had much time to prepare anything for the blog. So what I thought I would do is just add a summary of a few events and such like, that have been going on here in Berlin since the middle of December 2009.
Public Timetable Change - 14 December 2009
The European wide timetable change occurred over the weekend of 13/14 December 2009. There were a couple of routeing changes on the buses, the most important of which was the re-routeing and extension of route 248 from (Breitenbachplatz) - Alexanderplatz to Ostbahnhof, in order to serve the new BVG headquarters (TRIAS gebäude) which had been without a public transport connection since the BVG relocated there in September 2008.
More significant was the renaming of U-Bahn station Zinnowitzer Straße to Naturkundemuseum. The reasoning behind this was the continuing popularity of this Natural History Museum, with its Dinosaur exhibition, the most modern in Europe. The choice of Zinnowitzer Straße in 1991 as the name for the station had always been controversial.
U-Bhf Naturkundemuseum, (Natural History Museum) To enlarge click here!
U-Bhf Zinnowitzer Straße, the name of the station between 1991 and 2009 To enlarge click here!
U-Bhf Stettiner Bahnhof was the name of the station from opening on 30 January 1923 until it was renamed Nordbahnhof in 1951. It remained Nordbahnhof until 1991, although becuase of the building of the Berlin Wall it was closed from 13 August 1961 until 30 June 1990.To enlarge click here!
Allocation changes also saw new Citaro buses allocated to sister routes 106 and 204. The 106 being simultaneously transferred from BVG operation to Hartmann Buses.
Inclement weather has made impossible to get shots of clean buses since they entered service. To enlarge click here!
A new Citaro working route 106 on Seestraße in Wedding
A dirty 8628 on the 106 shows off the newer style back end of the latest citaros
more to follow….
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It has been a freezing winter here in London but I think you have had it a lot worse in Berlin!
I do agree with the renaming of the U-Bahn station to a more appropriate name. While we are still without a Brick Lane station (Aldgate East) or a Portobello Road (Ladbroke Grove) we have tourists (and some Londoners too) struggling to find what should be easy places to travel to…
el director.. yes plenty of snow.. nine weeks of it now.. have you seen these shots of mine.. ?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/isarsteve/sets/72157623267750658/show/
I have. You have taken some beautiful shots of Berlin this winter!