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  • When the Wall was erected, Berlin's complex public transit networks, the S-Bahn and U-Bahn, were divided with it.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Big Jim 2010

  • I had to take the U-bahn (subway) to a certain stop and then the S-Bahn (regular train) from that point on.

    Meep! Meep! : Bev Vincent 2009

  • When the Wall was erected, Berlin's complex public transit networks, the S-Bahn and U-Bahn, were divided with it.

    Reading the Hugo Nominees: The City & The City Big Jim 2010

  • I want it to be like Germany where you can go to any backwater on the S-Bahn.

    Matthew Yglesias » The High-Speed Rail Stimulus? 2009

  • This is a great way of attempting to fight pollution, I was in Berlin for New Years and yes every car within the S-Bahn ring had a sticker.

    Germany Bans Polluting Cars from City Centers | Inhabitat 2008

  • Meandering through dead-end jobs, uncomfortable flats and occasional casual sex, she is defiantly proud that a beggar and the voice of the S-Bahn announcer are her only points of human contact.

    Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis – review Isobel Montgomery 2010

  • WESTERVELT: Earlier this spring there was yet another disruption of Berlin's S-Bahn commuter train service.

    World War II Bombs Still Menace Germany 2010

  • On the U-Bahn and S-Bahn, police are under instructions to confiscate all packages larger than briefcases.

    Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

  • AFP/Getty Images Commuters crowded a platform to try to enter an S-Bahn train at the Ostkreuz station in Berlin, as heavy snow across Europe closed airports and brought trains and highways to a halt.

    Europe Battles Through Bitter Cold Snap 2010

  • Berlin has always been a place of fascination for me; I remember when I first went there in 1986, when the Wall was still very much there, the sense of truncation as you looked at the U-Bahn and S-Bahn lines stopping abruptly; and I remember going back in 1992 and walking under the Brandenburg Gate where I had taken pictures of the Wall from both sides six years before.

    July Books 5-12) Eight Fifth Doctor novelisations purple_pen 2008

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