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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gleisdreieck is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on a viaduct on the U1 and the U2 lines in the Kreuzberg district. The station has platforms elevated above ground level for both lines. The platforms of the U1 are at a higher level with respect to, and at right angles to, those for the U2. The station's name literally means railway triangle or wye in English and marks the spot of an earlier major train hub opened in 1902, where the three branches of the first Stammstrecke U-Bahn line from Zoologischer Garten, Potsdamer Platz and Warschauer Brucke met. A major accident at the triangle happened on September 26, 1908, when two trains collided. One car derailed and fell from the viaduct, killing 18 people and injuring 21. Upon another dangerous incident, the single level triangle from 1912 was rebuilt and replaced by the current two-level station. Since then there is no direct rail connection between the two lines at Gleisdreieck, only an intersection. Though in 1939 the North-South Tunnel was opened in close vicinity, there is no interchange to the S-Bahn system.

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