Talk:Berlin U-Bahn

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Contents 1 Route Number Listing 2 Types of U-Bahn train? 3 What's the point of the empty headings? 4 Naughty U-Bahn underwear 5 But WHERE do you buy tickets?

[edit] Route Number Listing

Hi Boredzo! you revised the list of Berlin U-Bahn Route numbers... I know it´s logical to list the routes in a number sequence... unfortunately that isn´t the Berlin way of doing it... the U15 is part of the U1 (half the U1) and the U55 is part of the U5 (or will be at a later date) and is also half the U5.. check out the Berlin S-Bahn Routes listing and you´ll see the same thing happens there... gruss aus Berlin IsarSteve 08:46, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Types of U-Bahn train?

Anyone into train types and stuff? I know there are big ones and little ones (and little boxy ones made by "VEB Lokomotivbau-Elektrotechnische Werke Hans Beimler") but not much else, i.e. how old they are, which trains are East /West. Also, apparently there used to be trains on the U5 which were made out of converted S-Bahns.

I´ll add a few details when I get the time but until then here´s a link [1] look under Das rollende Material IsarSteve 15:44, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

aha, interesting, thanks. The U5 trains I mean are evidently the "Baureihe E III". I think I even remember them. The German version also has some info. Ianb 22:43, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What's the point of the empty headings?

OK, so I moved the empty headings to the bottom of the article. But I'm about to remove them completely. But I really don't understand why they need to be there at all. Once the article at Berlin_U-Bahn/temp is translated, it will be great and awesome to have it on the English page. But why on Earth do we need the empty headings on the main article page right now? It just makes the main page look junky and incomplete. If you need a sandbox for working, use the temp page -- not a public page! --Jfruh 23:04, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. Maybe User:PZFUN is looking after his count of edits?--Hhielscher 14:15, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

For all the work I just put into the U-Bahn article, I'm not quite sure I like the accusation, but since its past the point of mattering, I'm not going to make an issue out of it. For the future, I do not edit with those intentions. Páll ^{(Die pienk olifant)} 02:51, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Naughty U-Bahn underwear

Ah, the BVG underwear, I remember it well from my time in Berlin (I lived there in the first half of 2002). If I recall correctly, you could also get panties labelled "Französische Straße" ("French Street").

Can anyone German explain why "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is supposed to be sexy? It's not some awful joke about black men's penises, is it? --Jfruh 22:30, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

The pant is the cabin, and Uncle Tom is what it houses. A straightforward pun. I don't think the story of the book were in the minds of the people who thought of that pant. The relationship between the book and the U-Bahn station of the same name is quite distant anyway. (The book was popular in Germany during the 1880s, which is why a pub was named for it. Later a neighbourhood around the pub arose and took its name. Even later the U-Bahn stop was named for the neighbourhood, see de:Onkel Toms Hütte (Berlin) )Anorak2 12:13, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

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The "Underwear" (given the English name) was a project by design students, and came in neat metal boxes. The names were all those of U-Bahn stations, which sounded like obvious double entendres. (Anorak's of interpretation of Onkel Toms Hütte is spot-on; it had nothing to do with knowledge of the book, or what an "Uncle Tom" is supposed to be (an unknown concept in Germany).) However, the text wasn't very accurate and didn't translate the joke well, so I'll rework it. ProhibitOnions 09:13, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

I've added an image of it to the article, as the BVG was selling it off at the festival today in celebration of 125 years of the electric tram.  ProhibitOnions  ^(T) 21:09, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] But WHERE do you buy tickets?

Wondering if someone could add a line to the entry about where you buy tickets. Obviously at the machines in the stations, but what if you don't have coins? Can you buy them at food stores, pubs, etc?

I'm reasonably sure that you can only buy them in stations, though I'm not positive about that so I won't edit the article. However, the ticket vending machines accept bills -- even quite large ones -- and make change. When I lived in Berlin I always bought my monthly passes -- 54 euro at the time -- at the vending machines. --Jfruh (talk) 19:34, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

You can also buy tickets and longer-term passes at many tobacconists and newsstands, and some stations have (or at least used to have) a counter where you could buy a ticket from a human being. User:Angr 20:53, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

The BVG site tells that the ticket counters still exist. It also states that the amount of private businesses selling the tickets is over 600. The U-Bahn uses the same with other modes of public transport. To my knowledge you can buy a ticket that is valid for the U-Bahn even from a bus driver.

The buses and streetcars are also part of the BVG, so yeah, the ticket you buy from a bus driver is also good for the U-Bahn. There's also an agreement between BVG and Deutsche Bahn that BVG tickets are also good in the S-Bahn, RegionalBahn, and RegionalExpress and vice versa (so long as you don't go outside the region of validity of your ticket). User:Angr 07:24, 29 June 2006 (UTC)