East Berlin U-Bahn train rides 1989

[@michaelklawe8758]

Ja, das war meine Zeit. U2, erster Zug von Pankow - Vinetastrasse um 5.03 Uhr, immer und immer pünktlich, und immer dieselben Leute im Zug, die sich nicht kannten und doch so verbunden waren durch einen stillen Gruß. Kein Gequatschte, Palaver oder Gedaddel, einfach nur sitzen und wach werden, um den Ausstieg nicht zu verpassen. War aber auch nicht schlimm, in spätestens 4 Minuten warst du wieder in der Gegenrichtung zurück! Am meisten vermisse ich Holz, Messing, weinrotes Leder, das warme Licht und den Geruch. Zum Glück alles abgespeichert. Vielen Dank für die Aufnahmen. ❤😊

[@VincentRaoul]

Thank you SO much for uploading these videos from East-Germany. I now live on Schönhauser Allee for 18 years and compared to nowadays especially the train ride with the U2-train seemed very adventurous! I take this train nearly every day to work and I wish I could just stand by that open door in that old train like you did! :) Also you recorded the house I'm living in, thank you so much!! :)))))

[@omartheOni]

Do you go on the u bahn

[@thomasriediger5015]

Einfach nur herrlich.Das war noch richtige U-Bahn in Berlin! Besonders gefallen hat mir der E3! Kein Vergleich mehr zum heutigen modernen Plastikgerümpel! Daumen geht weit rauf und Dankeschön für das Hochladen dieses Videos👍👍👍👍

[@GiacomoTarkusSannino]

OMG, those trains were still used on the U2!

[@slighter]

They were used until 1989, before it became U2.

[@pyroakakohleblock584]

they still are. and completely renovated from the inside. awesome train

[@GoodVideos4]

I read that 2 U-Bahn stations closed in East Berlin. That's because a West Berlin train ran through those stations. Not many people knew that.

[@Aluminiumplatte]

No - 12 stations in East Berlin at 3 Lines from West Berlin were closed. And everybody in east Berlin knew it - it was not a secret.

[@tolga9388]

6:29 and 10:25 made me smile. Man, you are one unlucky guy. Something happens each time you try to shoot the station names :) Joking aside, you were actually a lucky man to witness the history. Thanks for the upload!

[@trevormunday3691]

Thanks Yolticat. You brought me child memories. I too lived in PANKOW and Berlin was a safe city so as a kid, I used to travel alone on the U-Bahn including in the OLD metro shown in your video. I think it was made out of wood??. Not sure. I used go right in the front and speak to the driver/guard. It was the days where health and safety did not exist and so door would be open as the train would run and I loved it.

[@trevormunday3691]

Mind You, I'v forgotten German now.And Graffiti is really BAD now a days in Berlin. It was unheard back in the old days.

[@Yolticat]

Thanks, glad you liked this video! Health & Safety as you say was non-existent there, and also in Paris, where train doors could be opened in transit. In London, I know many people who were not train drivers who actually drove the tubes full of rush-hour passengers from one end of a line to the other, with the real driver's blessing.

[@dudedude5332]

Today with all the Immigrants and foreigners, Berlin is not safe anymore.

[@eduardoblancas8452]

In Mexico unfortunately we cannot speak with the driver due by the risk of distracting him and crashing 😐. More than less, in my country is a form of "vandalism" or "aggression" speaking to the driver without an scripted permission. Not only by the "respect fault", also due because many people is badly genius and can rob some train pieces for recycling them illegally, and that's sad.

[@Yolticat]

@swellh2o It was not allowed. To say I was noticed is an understatement...there was quite a reaction from the public, some warned me to be careful; others suggested I stop filming; some just interested. On an S-Bahn platform I was accosted by a soldier inviting me to put the camera away immediately! I decided to accept this invite. Returning across the frontier, I had separated the camera and the film cassette for safety. Throughout the whole day in East Berlin I had not seen another camcorder.

[@mitchisms]

Really enjoyed that Yolicat, great video. Thanks. Mitch, Sydney, Australia.

[@ruhri0411]

@cyndie26 Yes, it was possible to ride under the wall!! The U2 and U6 crossed East Berlin underground from West-Berlin to another part of West-Berlin without a stop. The drivers had to slow down at the stations, which were guarded be east german soldiers. There was no access to these so called ghost stations from the streets in east Berlin.

[@MichalBergseth-AmitopiaTV]

how did the soldiers get to the stations then?

[@jurajriecan8172]

@@MichalBergseth-AmitopiaTV A secret entrance? Soldier did not need more than a narrow door that did not need to match with the original sealed entrance. Military / police premises were untouchable in the East, nobody would dare to ask / think / look where what door could lead.

[@Zugfan2004]

Der Zug bei 1:30 hatte eine krasse Einsatzzeit von 88 Jahre. Heftig wie lange der durchgehalten hat.

[@marlonp8507]

Woher weiß man das?

[@Sternvogel007]

Ich war zwei Jahre später in Ost-Berlin. Da fuhren diese alten weiß-gelben Züge leider schon nicht mehr. Die sind auf jeden Fall schon sehr alt gewesen, das sieht man anhand von vielen Details.

[@simsonoldtimer]

Diese alten Züge waren aus den 20er Jahren und fuhren bis ende 1989

[@Aluminiumplatte]

Diese Züge rochen sehr eigenwillig. Als Kind dachte ich immer - so riecht die Zeit. Wegen des Alters der Züge.

[@thequietcab]

Könnte auch eine Sonderfahrt gewesen sein. Aber die alten S-Bahnen waren auch ja knappe 80 Jahre im Livebetrieb.

[@luislaplume8261]

The stainless steel trains at the end reminds me of the R32s of NYC from 1964, 1965.

[@airofan]

Thank you so very much for uploading this video. I will be in Berlin this Month for Inno-trans and International Air Show. I must say that what did strike me is the lack of Graffiti found on buildings and railway infrastructure. This makes a refreshing change from today where graffiti contaminates allot of the infrastructure today. Thank you again for this footage.

[@AnnieBodyElse]

There is also a lack of advertisement.

[@WhateverMcCoy]

Schönhauser Allee, Dimitroffstrasse...my part of Berlin back in the day. Thanks for the nostalgia!

[@villy27]

Auf der E-Linie (heute U5 zwischen Alexanderplatz und Hönow) huldigte man damals schon dem Kapitalismus und setzte (zusätzliche Züge wurden durch die Verlängerung der Strecke nach Hellersdorf notwendig) auf ausgemusterte Züge aus West-Berlin, statt auf Neubau aus sozialistischer Fabrikation. Später übrigens wurden einige Züge dieses Typs nach Pjönjang weiterverkauft.

[@stefants3986]

War einfach ökonomischer als eine so kleine Serie aufzulegen. Später wären sie sicher durch eine U-Bahn-Version der BR 270 (heute BR 485, das sind die, die gerade zusammen mit der BR 480 der S-Bahn den Arsch retten) abgelöst worden. Man hätte ja auch Kleinprofilzüge auf der U5 einsetzen können, wie es heute aus Mangel an Großprofilzügen geschieht, aber so verzweifelt war die Lage dann doch noch nicht.

[@trainluvr]

That was great. I was in E Berlin for 6 hours back in May 1989. Didnt know they had such old stock still running.

[@QuarioQuario54321]

U-Bahn looks like it was less safe back then since the doors were hand operated. The U5 looks like it was better since it had that door closing alert(wonder why the new G didn't)

[@robfriedrich2822]

It's great, that you disobey, so I can see, when the old trains, built before WW1, were used regular.

[@robfriedrich2822]

Also the 1960's S-Bahn based E-Trains.

[@winhuber]

im jahr der wende sind diese aufnahmen gemacht worden, sehr beeindruckend ...

[@pm_38]

Toll auch das die Beleuchtung innen immer kurz ausgeht sobald der Zug zum Halt kommt :-).

[@GerritWill1]

Schön solch eine seltene Aufenahme aus den letzten Tagen der DDR .

[@robertwolff9411]

Wozu die digitale Uhr Bei 13:20 min?

[@DrCharlesMontague]

Everyone looks so happy. =-P, kidding of course. Great video, awesome that you were able to do this! They liked to ride with the dang door open on the train, didn't they? Haha.

[@amonduul9010]

We didn't like to ride the underground with open doors - it was just normal because the trains were from the 20ies and the people took care about others. Thats all and today impossible.

[@TheBerlin09]

A question about the video: I am also working on a KZbin video documentary about the trains history of the Berlin U-Bahn and would like to include some small historical video sequences of the vehicles. The scenes with the old AI, EIII, D and G series would be very helpful, as hobby video recordings of these are very rare. Is it possible to use fragments of the video? When using the scenes, I would write ‘Source: Yolticat' in the video (Quelle is the German word for source) I would like to keep the scenes original and not use music so that you can hear the original vehicle sounds better. At the end of the video in the credits, a mention by name of the KZbin user whose video recordings I was allowed to use. In the video description, a direct link to the original video here. With this little documentary I do not pursue any commercial purposes, it is a pure hobby project to bring railway friends and curious people nearer to the interesting train history in a video. If you have any questions, please contact me. I would be very grateful for an answer, so that I know whether I can use the scene and if not, I respect the decision of course! Best regards Rafael/TheBerlin09

[@Yolticat]

This was made in June, the month before it all crumbled!

[@axelmiller8809]

Diese Bahnen kenne ich noch.Habe noch Monatsfahrkarten von Berlin. Damals gekauft am Bahnhof Zoo.Ja, habe die Türen auch während der Fahrt geöffnet.1991

[@mikkeljannssen3779]

94 in der S-bahn konnte ich die Türen noch öffnen

[@Yolticat]

@cyndie26 If you wanted to go between East & West Berlin you had to do so at one of the few frontier check points. As far as I remember there were at least two of these, plus one station Friedrichstrasse (the only station where interchange between the two countries was possible). I entered the East there, and returned at Checkpoint Charlie (I think).

[@fiedel]

Großartig! Danke.

[@Yolticat]

@viennatramway Twice it was suggested (one by gun-holstered soldier) that I put the camera away which I did and went elsewhere!

[@GoodVideos4]

I was also in Berlin, West and East, in September 1989.

[@Vlad153M]

Klasse video ! Daumen Hoch !

[@nysubwaydude5634]

Wait so some of the train doors are open even when the train is in motion in the tunnels 😦

[@Mr.A-Wagen]

yes it was so on the old A1 Stock wich was in Service 87 Years, but in Berlin or entire Germany it was Standart to open the Doors before the Train stops. But pretty shocking, right?

[@etiennelokai2180]

Dieser steinalter u bahnzug bei 1:12 war das eine sonderfahrt oder fuhren sie 1989 noch wirklich durch ost berlin

[@knightrider2052]

Dieser Wagen vom Typ A1 fuhr bis zum 5.November 1989 im Plan bei der Ost-Berliner U-Bahn. Genauso wie die Typen A2 und A2U (A2U war eine modernisierte Version des Typs A2 der in den 60er Jahren von der BVG West an die BVB abgegeben worden ist)

[@AnluvenRee]

The time before the disaster! Life was still beautiful there.

[@karorr]

What do you mean?

[@Busfan87]

Oh my god! I really love it!!!

[@Yolticat]

@ruhri0411 Actually I think it was line U8 with U6 and not U2 which crossed under the wall, as U2 was wholly in the West from end to end.

[@InterRegios]

4:44 how come doors open?!?!?

[@RTP-2007]

3:51 its soo dangerous running with the door opened

[@TopGearrules]

Went to Berlin last year (will defiantly return in the near future), extremely interesting the east/west divide. Was the east side of the underground run by the state?

[@simsonoldtimer]

Yes, it was, on east and west and still is today

[@Yolticat]

You're very welcome, thanks!

[@eduardoblancas8452]

Wow. In technical aspects, East berlinese U-Bahns were slightly far away on design and engineering from the Soviet, Chinese or North Korean trains, which now can be classified under the called "Post-sovet Chasis Type standard" or the famous "B-Type". 3 doors instead of 4 and the old metro built under Prussian standards, with all the Leibniz's advantages, was adapted to that standard of carriage engineering. Is just like if a Siemens Koppel and a Metrovagonmash had a baby, and that was something that we should learn from (railfans, futurologists and engineers), because the techniques and calculus used by the East countries were very advanced to its time, accesible and efficient, ever ready for the future without making extreme efforts or complicate designs.

[@win7sony]

I am going to berlin for the first time soon. Does this mean I should avoid lichtenberg as i am english?

[@cyndie26]

@Yolticat Was it possible to ride under the wall?

[@cyndie26]

@Yolticat Then how did you get into East Germany?

[@Yolticat]

@cyndie26 No because the wall separated the two opposing countries/governments in Berlin (Capitalist v Communist) and there was no free movement between the two except at manned checkpoints!

[@robfriedrich2822]

At this time, there were also Ex Westberlin trains. Nobody asks, where they from

[@ralphbartel7887]

I was there in 1980,🇺🇲♥️👍

[@Yolticat]

@swellh2o Checkpoint Friedrichstrasse could not have only been for German nationals as I was allowed through as a non-German. Anyone who could show the correct papers was allowed through to the East. I did not return that same way, so possibly (though unlikely) it was for Germans only from East to West. I can't remember if it was Checkpoint Charlie I returned via, so could that have been the one that was for Germans only? I do remember there was indeed one point for Germans only.

[@Yolticat]

@Sesselpuper13 Es war möglich, die Türen der alten Züge während der Fahrt geöffnet und es hat nicht den Zug anhalten, wie gesehen @ 2:42 !

[@valentino1000]

Did you record this by yourself?

[@6koko3]

While I was in Berlin I used to catch the Metro at Pankow , this metro stop was almost in ruins, several kiosks abandoned, furniture and instalations old and broken, junk on the floors, scrawled walls, it was not the only station like that.... sure it was not lthis way during the DDR. They should give jobs to people to arrange the metro stations.

[@MHG1023]

Die Züge stammen aus den 1920er jahren. Bin auch einmal damit gefahren. Die hatten bis zum Schluß keine Türverriegelung während der Fahrt !

[@viennatramway]

Hallo ais Wien, konnte man da ohne Probleme filmen?

[@the1gip]

How did you manage to take this footage without being arrested?

[@alexben0]

Danke fur das video !

[@Sohave]

I like the old stock, 02:14 you do not see those in Berlin anymore, through you see much other interesting material from the 60'ies and 70'ies

[@mahmudmarsudi4430]

Dprk metro is from east berlin

[@Yolticat]

@cyndie26 This video was taken before its knocking down!

[@TRANSPORTVIDEOS]

Gute video! :)

[@valentino1000]

It's very special!! Where are you from?

[@ruhri0411]

@BeIIegar Meine Güte, dann habe ich mich eben mit der Linie vertan, aber dass 2 Linien unter Ostberliner Gebiet fuhren, stimmte doch (und die 6 war ja doch richtig!). Außerdem war die Frage, ob es möglich war, unter der Mauer durchzufahren. Der Rest mit den Linien ist Erbsenzählerei, aber trotzdem danke für die Berichtigung:-)

[@sabrinaclarus6290]

Wenn sich jemand noch erinnert , damals sind wir auch in der Bahn fuer alte Leute und schwangere Frauen aufgestanden , um ihnen unseren Sitz anzubieten ! Respekt , nennt man das !

[@manuelbauer6624]

...insbes. die Altbauzüge sind beeindruckend.

[@ChihuahuaboyDH]

This is a nice, nostalgic trip down memory lane. Those trains sure ran fast! The U-Bahn trains travelled within the East Berlin city limits, correct? They did not travel to the East German countryside, correct? Are these same trains still in use as of 2014?

[@4ever242]

Yes, U-bahn for city only, like a subway (metro) and the S-bahn=suburban rail. Unfortunately, all of these old trains have been replaced.

[@AnnieBodyElse]

@@4ever242 Better check Berlin public transportation map. S-Bahn means Stadtbahn as the opponent to Ringbahn which was established before Stadtbahn. Ringbahn surrounded the city Berlin since around 1876 and was connecting the suburbs which nowadays have become borroughs. Stadtbahn was extended then in the 1880s and lead to the suburbs which are still suburbs today. East Berlin had and still has only 2 metrolines called U-Bahn (Untergrundbahn). The line U2 going from east to west and the line U5 starting in the eastern center (Alexanderplatz) and terminates in the very east of the city in Hönow. Towards the final station the countryside begins.

[@HELESPONTify]

Gold time!

[@systemuhr]

the good old "series G" lovely called "Gisela" build between:1974-1989 in LEW Henningsdorf in the early GDR and they drives continued

[@arino253]

Only the G1/1 trains (built between 1987 and 1989) remained in service. The prototype train "Gustav" (built in 1974) was scrapped in 1997 and the G1 trains (built between 1978 and 1982/1983) are operating on the railway network in North Korea nowadays. There were also G3 trains built for the Athens Metro between 1983 and 1985, but those were scrapped in 2004.

[@constableLSA]

Wahnsinn. Sind die AI nicht um 1910 gebaut worden??

[@TrainsOfSander]

That is a nice and interesting video.

[@Yolticat]

TrainsOfSander Thanks :-)

[@Dogegaming5469]

7:57 sound like old door like old door he 1989 and 2017 the door is old 1989 BAD 2017 good :)

[@SuperBlackFreak]

no. there are some "problem-districts" sure. but that is the case in every big city on the world. In Berlin for example it's neukölln.

[@groadmeraltrawn5405]

der zug bei 1:13 ist aus den Jahre 1039. gelb und Silber ist eine super Farbe für die u bahn Berlin ist diese Farbe beser als nur gelb

[@markusalexander]

Ich wusste gar nicht, dass es vor 979 Jahren schon U-Bahnen gab.

[@thomasostarek2829]

artig und dizipliniert die menschen damals.....wobei der junge vielleicht wusste das er gefilmt wurde.....allein die flackernde lampe. bei 8.45..ein super film

[@wojciechmyszor6538]

Wow. Ist neu camera.😄peac from poland.

[@alphatotheomega7]

I lived last year in East Berlin as an exchange student. It was interesting, but I hated the graffiti and constant ads that cover the whole city. Prague was the only city in Europe where I felt the most free from ugly modern things like that.

[@flaviocassimiroperettojuni8051]

I like the Graffiti

[@goclunker]

God, the ddr looked so sad and desolate. I was born in 1985, in Poland. I have memories of the east. Believe it or not, Cuba still resembles the ddr/eastern europe with commieblock buildings (certain parts)

[@AnnieBodyElse]

Most of the metrostations and residential buildings still look the same today. Come and have a look.

[@goclunker]

@@AnnieBodyElse that actually sounds amazing.

[@Yolticat]

@swellh2o Yes. Line 1 I think.

[@Yolticat]

@swellh2o A day visa could be got at Frierischstrasse because that's what I did.

[@krizhownik2409]

Did the inhabitants of the GDR have digital cameras?

[@Yolticat]

Not generally.

[@kingharryannis]

I was there 4 weeks before the wall fell.Went through Check Point Charlie with my new wife .In East Berlin Interrogated by to North Koreans .They thought I was military .Had a Stazi hit on me , 3 weeks later the Berlin wall fell. Next time I am in Berlin I shall look for my Stazi file.

[@Yolticat]

You're very welcome!

[@thomasostarek2829]

wobei das schienennetz...scheint so schlecht garnicht zu sein....und die bahnhöfe...im gegensatz zu unseren auch damals 1989!

[@Yolticat]

I think the penalties if caught were severe enough to be a deterrent for most people!

[@Yolticat]

Yes I did, all in one day, as a day visa was required then if one's not from the DDR.

[@alphatotheomega7]

Actually it fell in November.

[@matthewbrown3420]

Sounds like the 1992 tube stock.

[@mojbeka]

These trains ride in Pyongyang today.

[@SMGJohn]

Not anymore, they replaced them with their own local manufactured ones with latest safety standards accordingly to international safety protocols.

[@arino253]

@@SMGJohn The D trains ("Dora") from West-Berlin are still operating on the Pyongyang Metro. In addition, the new metro cars you mentioned are actually just modernized D trains. The G1 trains ("Gisela") from this video here are still operating on the railway network in the north korean provinces, equipped with pantographs and converters (3000 V DC to 750 V DC) to adapt them to those circumstances.

[@anisocoro]

People is very silent in this video, very different behaviour from what we can see in other cities in which passengers are used to exchange some words to each other

[@KKRS10]

Alte Kindheitserinnerungen kommen auf

[@Yolticat]

Yes indeed, you're probably right.

[@Yolticat]

@yaumatei1994 Lines 2 and 5

[@tonyclifton265]

old east berlin U-bahn trains are still in service - in pyong yang, north korea! they were shipped there in the 70s when the DDR was still communist

[@Yolticat]

meine Freude!

[@thomasostarek2829]

für die filme müsste der mann einen preis bekommen......!

[@Yolticat]

Yes, as was everything else too.

[@thomasostarek2829]

ich denke bei grafitti....ich denke da hätte die Stasi schon aufgepasst und die strafen waren heftig

[@stefbaer2008]

Die Sprühdosen gab es da nicht in Masse und die Bevölkerung war in sehr großen Teilen noch viel vernünftiger und achtsamer mit dem Umgang ihrer gesamten Umgebung. Da war noch " wahre Bildung " mit im Spiel. Heute darf jeder machen was, wann und wie er will. Verrückte Zeiten, irre Menschen. Es wird höchste Zeit für ein sehr krasses Umdenken.

[@Oddop]

But the wall was destroyed 1989

[@ВалерийДенисов-ш4э]

Это 1969 год а не 89 , ахтунг ахтунг !!!

[@giovannibrunoro1055]

The guy at 1:54 is probably a western tourist

[@6koko3]

East Berlin and its Metro looked very neat and clean. Nowadays the metro is dirtier and full of graffitis and stupid advertisements. DDR was much better.

[@HELESPONTify]

Sure, but Western country have Great Propaganda

[@Moepabc]

@Klingl3r oh ok, das wusste ich nicht :D