Intro

 The why and wherefore

This is my first urban project, a change from endless bucolic BLT’s but as a last project I needed a break. The location did exist, the line was a spur off the Industriebahn Tegel-Friedrichsfelde that ran past Lübars, the only village in Berlin.

 

91 693 of Pankow running on the ITF on the line to Lübars

 Lübars is in the north-east of Reinickendorf has the classic structure of a Brandenburg village: a village green, a church, some single-storey classicist farmhouses, a village inn, horse breeding, and surrounding farmland. Lübars also still has some functioning family-run farms.

The goods yard is in a quiet corner of the Industriebahn Tegel–Friedrichsfelde (ITF) in the mid-1960s Immediately after crossing the Heidekrautbahn railway line, the route enters the Reinickendorf district. A connecting curve joins from the Heidekrautbahn to the south, followed by the Lübars freight yard. Directly beyond this, until the 1950s, was a branch line to a factory complex on what is now Wilhelmsruher Damm, located between Eichhorster Weg and Königshorster Straße. The line crosses Quickborner Straße and runs north of the Märkisches Viertel district