berlin ringbahn

sketches of the berlin circular railway – two done today and one in july:

at westend station the road “spandauer damm” is crossing the circular rail and motorway. the bridge therefore is currently replaced – because neither the motorway, nor the circular rail can be interrupted, the constructionwork happens with maintained traffic. so people wait for their train, while a big volvo monstersledgehammermachinesomething is choping remainings of the old structure (when i made the drawing, it was still asleep and halfway hidden behind a pole – it woke up, when i started colouring…).

a wheelloader digging spandauer damm by the bridge.

the next station ist messe nord (former witzleben). the berlin ringbahn and the a100 motorway cut the 19th century city abruptly, creating these savage locations. you see the northgate, in the back the yellow scrawl by the gutter shall represent the funkturm berlin, with the international congress centrum asside of it. (sketched in the late dawn in july)