Germany (November 2006)

Wustermark: The large depot of Wustermark was build in 1920 beneath the big shunting yard in the West of Berlin. Hardly destroyed in the last days of WW2 just a part of it was rebuild after war. The mainline to Lehrte - once the most important line in East-West-traffic from and to Berlin - was cutted by the Berlin Wall in 1961 and so the importance of Wustermark' shunting yard was much lower than in pre-wartime.

The dominating class of steam engines was class 52. First of all the non-reconstructed engines survived here until the 80s, but were substituted by diesel-class 118. Just less engines survived in the small services, consisting of just one steam-train on the line Wustermark - Nauen - Kremmen - Velten - Hennigsdorf - Wustermark. After the official end of steam in 1987 the engines were still in use for hauling service trains for the electrification of the line around Berlin. For education purposes of young locomotive-drivers the Kremmen' tour was started up once again in spring of 1989, but with the fall of the Berlin Wall everything changed: Totally unexpected the steam engines came back to regular passenger services in 1991, then a tourist train was running from Nauen to the Spreewald on every Saturday. The route of this train runs through the middle of Berlin over the so called "Stadtbahn"- a very scenic thing! The last of these steam trains runs on 28.05.1994.

52.8006-0 shunting at Velten(Mark).		52.8117-5 at Ruhleben Gbf. This scenic station was totally changed just a few years later.
52.8075-5 next to the still closed S-Bahn station Eichkamp.		052.117-9 with an old signal bridge on the Stadtbahn-line.
52.8117-5 leaving Lehrter Stadtbahnhof. Today it's the place of the new built Hauptbahnhof (main station) of Berlin.		052.117-9 on the Bridge over the Humboldthafen. This bridge was replaced by a new bridge in the 1990s.
A typical Stadtbahn-shot: 52.8075-5 near Jannowitzbruecke.		52.8075-5 with the last steam train on 28.05.1994 at the Hauptbahnhof - today renamed into Ostbahnhof.