| World War II and the division of Germany largely destroyed Berlin's dense long distance railway network which was once renowned throughout Europe. Berlin's development in the course of the next few years will go hand in hand with the need to tackle the increasing volume of passengers. In order to cope with this new traffic situation, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Land Berlin and Deutsche Bahn are constructing a central connecting railway station which should be completed by 2006. The new station, currently Europe's largest railway building site, will create, for the first time, a north-south connection straight through the city. It will thus overcome the problems of the former system of the railway terminus. There will also be an additional east-west connection over the urban railway viaduct. The new railway station, the junction of the two main traffic axes, will be the most important station in the city. On its completion it is expected to handle 240,000 passengers every day.
Until then a number of main stations will continue to operate. These are Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten (Zoo) in Hardenbergplatz, the Ostbahnhof in Strasseder Parisee Kommune, Lichtenberg , Wannsee, Spandau and Schönefeld.
All railway stations are connected to Public Transport, the BVG underground and surface rail network.
The Zoo station (Bahnhof Zoo) is the main point of arrival from Western destinations including Hamburg and Amsterdam. You will be arriving in Lichtenberg (East Berlin) if you are coming from Eastern destinations such as Vienna, Prague and Budapest.
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