25T42 The view at Berlin Westkreuz

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E41, B36.

In addition to Berlin’s central station (Hauptbahnhof) for local traffic and connections, there are 4 additional important junctions for travel in and around the city for both resident and visitor: Gesundbrunnen (a.k.a., Nordkreuz), Ostkreuz, Südkreuz, and Westkreuz: one for each cardinal direction.

On my way back into Berlin having spent the afternoon in Stahnsdorf (south of Wannsee), I transferred at Westkreuz for a Ringbahn circle-line train. During the ten-minute wait, I kept my eyes wide open.

Late-day light, facing west to the Radio Tower and the International Congress Center. Next to the tower, there appears to be a bright blob in the same horizontal line as the low-altitude Sun (behind the trees).
The colourful blob is a “sun dog” with rainbow colours. Ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds act like prisms, refracting light from red to blue.
Berlin Ringbahn (Circle Route): S41 clockwise, S42 counterclockwise. Each station is listed with travel time from Westkreuz and connections to other U- and S-Bahn trains.
Kundenbetreuerin in der S-Bahn / S-Bahn customer service representative.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 18 June 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

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