Museum Hamburger Railway Station, Berlin
Designed by Georg Ernst Friedrich Neuhaus and Ferdinand Wilhelm Holz, the railway terminal of the Hamburg-Berlin line was completed in 1847 and exerted a strong influence on station architecture in Berlin in the second half of the 19th century. The decline of the station after 1884 led to the demolition of the train hall and the removal of the tracks in 1886, and the conversion of the station buildings into offices and housing. Plans had existed since 1879 for the erection of a transport and railways museum in Berlin, and the old station complex seemed to offer an ideal location; but it was to take until 1906 before the conversion and extension work was completed and the museum opened.
