Berolina was a
named passenger train between
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
and
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
via
Frankfurt (Oder)
Frankfurt (Oder), also known as Frankfurt an der Oder (), is a city in the German state of Brandenburg. It has around 57,000 inhabitants, is one of the easternmost cities in Germany, the fourth-largest city in Brandenburg, and the largest German ...
. Introduced in 1959, it went through a number of iterations, including a short period without a name. Part of the
Interexpress
Interexpress (abbreviated as "''IEx''") is a former international train category. The word ''Interexpress'' is a short form version of the German language term (English: ''International Express'') and its foreign language equivalents.
Interexpr ...
network as IEx 242/243 from 1986, it became categorised as
EuroCity
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trains 42 and 43 in 1992. The service was finally replaced by the
Berlin-Warszawa-Express
The ''Berlin-Warszawa-Express'' (BWE) is a cross-border train service that connects Berlin and Warsaw via Frankfurt (Oder), operated jointly by Deutsche Bahn (DB Fernverkehr) and Polish State Railways (PKP Intercity). The service, classed as EuroCi ...
in 2002.
Berolina is reintroduced as an ICE train from Berlin to Vienna in 2018.
The train's name, ''
Berolina
Berolina is the female personification of Berlin and the allegorical female figure symbolizing the city. One of the best-known portraits of Berolina is the statue that once stood in Alexanderplatz.
Statue
In 1871, emperor William I ordered an B ...
'', is the
New Latin
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name for Berlin and the
allegorical
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female figure symbolizing the city.
History
Initially, the ''Berolina'' was operated using DRG Class 137
diesel multiple unit
A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines. A DMU requires no separate locomotive, as the engines are incorporated into one or more of the carriages. Diesel-powered single-unit railcars are also ...
s (Bauart Köln). By the 1970s, these had been replaced by a rake of coaches hauled by
DR Class 130 locomotives.
For part of its existence, the train continued as a ''
Schnellzug
A ''Schnellzug'' is an express train in German-speaking countries, where it refers to trains that do not stop at all stations along a line. The term is used both generically and also as a specific train type. In Germany and Austria it is also ref ...
'' service (D 242/243) from Berlin to Paris, France, and then returned to Berlin (as D243), in each case via the Ruhr district and Belgium. However, the name ''Berolina'' was only ever used for the section of the train's route between Warsaw and Berlin.
See also
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Vindobona (train)
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History of rail transport in Germany
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The history of rail transport in Germany can be traced back to the 16th century. The earliest form of railways, wagonways, were developed in Germany in the 16th century. ...
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History of rail transport in Poland The history of rail transport in Poland dates back to the first half of the 19th century when railways were built under Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian, Russian Empire, Russian, and Austria-Hungary, Austrian rule. Of course, "divided Poland" in the 19t ...
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List of EuroCity services
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List of named passenger trains of Europe
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References
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External links
Private web page– about the history of the DR's international trains 1977 to 1993
– about the history of the IEx trains
– about passenger trains to and from Moscow (includes brief discussion of the ''Berolina'')
{{EuroCity trains
EuroCity
International named passenger trains
Named passenger trains of Germany
Named passenger trains of Poland
Railway services introduced in 1959
Railway services discontinued in 2002