Total length: 18.7 km (7.6 km shared with U1) - 10.7 km above ground (5.7 km elevated; 5 km in cutting) - 24 stations (11 shared with U1)

Small-profile line with ~105 m long platforms (mostly 6-car trains of A3 stock in service).

Line U3 basically serves the Wilmersdorf-Dahlem U-Bahn, which, though connected to the Berlin U-Bahn from the beginning, was built by the then independent municipalities of Wilmersdorf and Dahlem, and therefore stations have designs different from the typical Berlin underground stations from that period. On the surface section, all stations have individually designed entrance buildings at street level. While the outer section through Dahlem runs in an open cutting, the route through Wilmersdorf is underground. From the 1960s, the Krumme Lanke branch was operated as line U2, but became line U1 in 1993, when the present U2 alignment was re-established. But in 2004, line number U3 was re-introduced and assigned to this leg. On 7 May 2018, line U3 was extended to Warschauer Straße.

Between Wittenbergplatz and Warschauer Straße, lines and U3 share the same tracks.

12-10-1913: Wittenbergplatz - Thielplatz
22-12-1929: Thielplatz - Krumme Lanke
1959: Nürnberger Platz station closed
02-06-1959: + Spichernstraße station
08-05-1961: + Augsburger Straße station

Alexander Seefeldt & Axel Mauruszat

U3 - Die "Wilmersdorf-Dahlemer Schnellbahn"

Nov. 2018

ISBN 978-3-936573-56-5

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22-12-1929

22-12-1929

Island platform covered with glass roof; on both sides, lined with shops.

22-12-1929

Freie Universität (Thielplatz) 

12-10-1913

(until 11-12-2016: Thielplatz)

12-10-1913

12-10-1913

Platform on the surface, located directly at the tunnel mouth.

12-10-1913

12-10-1913

12-10-1913

Platform at a greater depth due to adjacent tunnel below the S-Bahn, which lies in a cutting, resulting in an unusual high station hall with church-like vaults.

12-10-1913

12-10-1913

02-06-1959

New station with side platforms added to provide interchange with line U9 and replacing the former Nürnberger Platz station, which was located about 200 m further east.

08-05-1961

Simple station with side platforms added in 1961 to reduced the distance between Spichernstraße and Wittenbergplatz.

12-10-1913

5-track junction, with line U3 sharing the westbound northernmost track with line U1, and stopping at the southern island platform in the eastbound direction. Station with a rather large entrance building from 1913.

24-10-1926

4-track double-deck underground station, with line U3 sharing the eastbound platform edge with line U1 on the upper level, but with boarding in the westbound direction on the southern track at the lower level.