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Priority 7
09-02-2012, 08:42 PM
Not a lot I can really tell you about this site I am afraid, its a roundhouse in Berlin used for service and redirecting train engines...

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http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/msaunder1972/Roundhouse%20R%20-%20Berlin%20Feb%202012/rh007.jpg

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Thanks for looking

SaltGeorge
09-02-2012, 09:18 PM
Is that Rummelsberg? shit, I thought it still had the roof intact..

Great set of shots, the low angle of the winter sun is very nice.

simonix
09-02-2012, 09:39 PM
Wow! That's a cracking turntable.

Clough
10-02-2012, 07:56 AM
Nice roof for sure

Priority 7
10-02-2012, 10:32 AM
Salt it is bud, apparently the roof was in such a poor state they took it off.... :(

MJS
10-02-2012, 06:43 PM
Very very nice mate!

fowle
10-02-2012, 07:10 PM
I like this a lot, id like it even more if it was called ROADHOUSE !!

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh210/Lysander_Photo/roadhouse.jpg

SaltGeorge
10-02-2012, 07:43 PM
Salt it is bud, apparently the roof was in such a poor state they took it off.... :(

There's about six or seven roundhouses within the city limits. I had a look at Rummerlsberg but there was too much activity in the yard during the day. An interesting collection of locomotives gets parked up just outside it.

I can't find your freightyard in my notes, but looking for it on GE I found a new assylum.. .. ;)

Priority 7
10-02-2012, 08:55 PM
There's about six or seven roundhouses within the city limits. I had a look at Rummerlsberg but there was too much activity in the yard during the day. An interesting collection of locomotives gets parked up just outside it.

I can't find your freightyard in my notes, but looking for it on GE I found a new assylum.. .. ;)

You have...any chance you might share it with me before I head home :) I may be able to provide a location in trade :)

the kwan
11-02-2012, 12:55 AM
loving the pictures..very nice indeed.

SaltGeorge
11-02-2012, 06:33 PM
You have...any chance you might share it with me before I head home :) I may be able to provide a location in trade :)

I'm happy to say it in public, it's very much a live site although it has museum tours of the boilerhouse and possibly other areas.. remember, this is just a GE-spot and I've yet to do any serious research on it.

It's Krankenhaus Herzberge (now Evangelische Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge), closest S-bahn appears to be Springpfuhl but it looks like there might be a tram passing by. As I say, it's very much live but looking at GE the periphery of the site may not be used much and there appears do be an abandoned rail connection to the west with goods sidings, I'd expect there to have been coal transfer facilities. There's also something to the south worth a look.

It's has the right sort of look that I'd spend a day walking about the area to see what else might be associated. It also has a good legend, very easy to walk into the private grounds as long as there's no gate and if questioned you'd seen the webpage for the boilerhouse museum and were looking to see if it's open - it won't be, it appears to only open a few times a year or by appointmemt.

The problem I always have with Berlin is the pace of change. I spent a very wet afternoon last summer walking from S-bahn Jungfernheide to U-bahn Westhafen and every single one of my targets had either been demolished (gasworks), rennovated (industrial) or the builders were on-site starting rennovations (goods station). It was still a good walk though.

Marzahn is worth a walk, no site as such to report on but it's worth a genuine urban explore on foot. Definitely a daylight visit though.

Have you been up the Park Inn? The viewing platform isn't widely advertised but although it's not as high as the Fernsehturm it does have two advantages.. it's open (just a safety net) and the view includes the Fernsehturm. And I can recommend the SchniSpaSa (Schnitzel, spaetzle and salad) at Hirsch on Kopernikusstrasse, Friedrischain.