Total
length: 18.2
km (underground) - 24 stations
Large-profile
line with ~100 m long platforms (6-car trains of F and H stock).
Line
U8 operates every 5 minutes during daytime service, although between 09:00
and 12:00, every other train terminates at Osloer Straße.
Line
U8 is completely underground and comprises the Gesundbrunnen-Neukölln
U-Bahn line (Line D) opened in the 1920s.
During the times of the city's division, U8 trains ran through East Berlin
skipping all stations from Bernauer Straße to Heinrich-Heine-Straße.
All 'ghost stations' were re-opened in the months following the fall of
the Wall in Nov. 1989. The construction of a northern extension began
in the 1970s and eventually reached Wittenau in 1994, although the initially
2-3 station extension to Märkisches Viertel was later shelved due
to other priorities after the unification of the city. In the south, a
1-station extension was finished to provide interchange with the S-Bahn
ring line which had re-opened in 1993.
17-07-1927:
Schönleinstraße - Boddinstraße
12-02-1928: Schönleinstraße - Kottbusser Tor
06-04-1928: Kottbusser Tor - Neanderstraße (now Heinrich-Heine-Straße)
04-08-1929: Boddinstraße - Leinestraße
18-04-1930: Neanderstraße - Gesundbrunnen
05-10-1977: Gesundbrunnen - Osloer Straße
27-04-1987: Osloer Straße - Paracelsus-Bad
24-09-1994: Paracelsus-Bad - Wittenau
13-07-1996: Leinestraße - Hermannstraße
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