Anhalter Bahnof - Well Worth the Watch.

[Georgeconna]

 

[Horsetan]

Crazy ambitious modelling of a crazy ambitious station. Today's remains in Berlin are a tiny part of what was a gigantic structure

[Flying Snail]

I really enjoyed watching that: its a seriously impressive project alright ... I was fascinated by the various techniques and jigs he used to "scale up" the modelling process

[Georgeconna]

I agree some nice techniques there, Painstaking slow but worthwhile. I wonder will be Sticky paper onto the plasticard come back to haunt him.

The Stanley blade jig was sublime!

Edited December 28, 2022 by Georgeconna

[leslie10646]

As Ivan says above, only the facade is there today, but it is the station which appears in several scenes of the Moustachio'd Man greeting folk like Musso arriving often behind double-headed streamlined pacifics!

It was also the terminal point for my Christmas trainset (see appropriate thread) from Dresden (two arrivals / departures each day).

He's NOT THE FIRST TO MODEL THIS STATION - just go to the Technical Museum in Berlin and in one of the roundhouses you'll find a HO model of the station and the approach lines, including the very roundhouse in which the model is located.

Just stick "technical museum berlin" into Google and flip through the Tripadvisor pictures and you'll find an image of the model (about 20 / 30 pics in!). Worth going to Berlin to see!

It looks a great video, so thanks, George for sharing it!

[Horsetan]

6 hours ago, leslie10646 said:

As Ivan says above, only the facade is there today,...

'Tis not even a half-complete facade, but part of the lower two-thirds of the entrance wall/portico and a fragment of one side. That's it. That's all that's left. Even that is massive. Have a look round on Google Maps.

The word "grandiose" doesn't even begin to cover the original structure. 

[Galteemore]

Had the plans for Germania come to fruition, it was destined to be a swimming pool, replaced by an even grander station.

[Horsetan]

Just look at the size of it in HO:

https://www.fotocommunity.de/photo/anhalter-bahnhof-ii-modell-technik-mu-guenterfrisch/40770772

Did you know that, back in 2003/4, Märklin released a kit to build the entire structure including the admin offices? It was in 1:220 scale (Z-gauge), and still managed to look gigantic.

[murphaph]

And Anhalter is just one of several terminus stations in Berlin that no longer exist or at least not in the form they did (for example only the U-Bahn station remains, for example at Görlitzerbahnhof):

Anhalter, Potsdamer,  Görlitzer, Lehrter (on the site the current Hauptbahnhof was built after the remains of Lehrter were demolished),  Schlesischer (nowadays Ostbahnhof), Stettiner and Hamburger Bahnhof.

Görlitzer especially was a nice station but it had no chance of surviving as it ended up just inside West Berlin with its tracks heading to Görlitz in the GDR near the Polish border. The German wiki page shows some pictures after the wall had been built. There was a gate in the wall to allow freight (and only freight) to pass through the wall, with a gantry for GDR border guards to stand on and keep a watch out for would be escapees.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Görlitzer_Bahnhof

Stettiner Bahnhof was renamed to Nordbahnhof by the GDR after the government recognised the Oder-Neiße line as the border between the GDR and Poland. Stettin was in Germany before the war, but now it was in Poland so it was politically incorrect to refer to it in this way and it was renamed to the bland Nordbahnhof. Nothing remains of any of the terminus station either, only the underground S-Bahn station still carries the name Nordbahnhof today:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Nordbahnhof

I used to alight at the S-Bahn station every day and there are (purely decorative) tracks laid into the paving outside with the names of the destinations no longer served carved into stone "sleepers".

 

[murphaph]

16 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

Just look at the size of it in HO:

https://www.fotocommunity.de/photo/anhalter-bahnhof-ii-modell-technik-mu-guenterfrisch/40770772

Did you know that, back in 2003/4, Märklin released a kit to build the entire structure including the admin offices? It was in 1:220 scale (Z-gauge), and still managed to look gigantic.

I might go into the city tomorrow and take a gander at that H0 one!

[airfixfan]

Visited this station for the first time in 1987. Much of the building still remained then and in the U Bahn station thete are some photos of the former terminal station.