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Berlin - Blickpunkt der Welt : BVG Verkehrsführer : Berlin transport guide : Berliner Verkehrs - Betrieben : nd [c.1950] : cover
A German language guide to the major streets and sights of Berlin along with a list of the city's tram, bus and underground (U-Bahn) routes. A small folder it includes various fold out pages that show in maps the BVG-West's combined tram, bus and U-Bahn routes along with a plan of the excursions possible by BVG services to Grunewald and the Havel.
Not dated the folder already shows the growing post-war division between east and west Berlin although this does show the continued extension of a few tram routes into the eastern sector before public transport routes were wholly curtailed within sectors and before the Berlin Wall was constructed.
West Berlin, unlike the East, was to abandon its extensive tramway network in the 1960s and this list shows the 21 tram still running and it was abandoned, replaced by bus A24, in 1953 so the folder pre-dates this date. I have also seen a later 1954 edition with a more modern example of Berlin's famous double deck buses on the cover so this with the older style is likely to predate this. The cover "Berlin - the focus of the world", is by Maty and the version of the U-Bahnnetz plan on the back cover is by Tesch of the BVG.
Berlin - Blickpunkt der Welt : BVG Verkehrsführer : Berlin transport guide : Berliner Verkehrs - Betrieben : nd [c.1950] : cover
A German language guide to the major streets and sights of Berlin along with a list of the city's tram, bus and underground (U-Bahn) routes. A small folder it includes various fold out pages that show in maps the BVG-West's combined tram, bus and U-Bahn routes along with a plan of the excursions possible by BVG services to Grunewald and the Havel.
Not dated the folder already shows the growing post-war division between east and west Berlin although this does show the continued extension of a few tram routes into the eastern sector before public transport routes were wholly curtailed within sectors and before the Berlin Wall was constructed.
West Berlin, unlike the East, was to abandon its extensive tramway network in the 1960s and this list shows the 21 tram still running and it was abandoned, replaced by bus A24, in 1953 so the folder pre-dates this date. I have also seen a later 1954 edition with a more modern example of Berlin's famous double deck buses on the cover so this with the older style is likely to predate this. The cover "Berlin - the focus of the world", is by Maty and the version of the U-Bahnnetz plan on the back cover is by Tesch of the BVG.