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Former BVG headquarters on Potsdamer Straße A Berlin bus during the strikes of 1932. The Berliner Verkehrs Aktiengesellschaft was formed in 1928, by the merger of the Allgemeine Berliner Omnibus AG (the operator of the city's buses), the Gesellschaft für Elektrische Hoch- und Untergrundbahnen (the operator of the U-Bahn) and the Berliner Straßenbahn-Betriebs-GmbH (the operator of the city's ...
The most famous line is the 100, which serves the tourist route from Alexanderplatz to the Zoological Garden, passing many of Berlin's sights. The suburban buses, operating outside Berlin and not managed by BVG, are included in the tariff area of Berlin public transport. Each bus line has a three-digit number.
The Berlin tramway (German: Straßenbahn Berlin) is the main tram system in Berlin, Germany.It is one of the oldest tram networks in the world having its origins in 1865 [6] and is operated by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), which was founded in 1929. [6]
All these services are operated by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) and use the common public transport tariff run by the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB). [16] Of the BVG-operated bus routes, 19 are designated as part of the MetroNetz, which provides a high frequency service in areas poorly served by the U-Bahn and S-Bahn.
Of course, they were painted in the East Berlin color scheme of ebony and yellow. 7 trains (110 386-110 397, also known as 2096 to 2099 and 2102 to 2109) all returned to BVG early in November 1990. After the merger of BVB with BVG in January 1992, these trains continued to deploy on the U5, U6, U7, and U8 until their retirement in 1998-99.
The BVG Class F is a train type designed for the large profile routes on the Berlin U-Bahn. 257 units (each consisting of two cars) were constructed between 1973 and 1994 in seven batches. These batches differ in terms of design and technical equipment.
This is an alphabetical list of Berlin U-Bahn stations. Currently, there are 175 active stations. [1]Adenauerplatz Alexanderplatz Blaschkoallee Bülowstraße Dahlem-Dorf Eberswalder Straße Friedrichstraße Gesundbrunnen Görlitzer Bahnhof Hallesches Tor Heidelberger Platz Hermannplatz Jannowitzbrücke Klosterstraße Konstanzer Straße Krumme Lanke Leinestraße Märkisches Museum Mohrenstraße ...
DR and BVG (of the whole of reunified Berlin from 1 January 1992, after absorbing BVB of East Berlin) operated individual lines end to end, both into the other party's territories. For example, S2 was all BVG even after it was extended northward and southward into Brandenburg/former East German territory.