Interzonal Traffic - Berlin Blockade

Berlin Blockade

The railroad traffic between Berlin and the Western zones was interrupted between April 22, 1948, and May 12, 1949, allegedly due to structural work, but in fact because of the Berlin Blockade crisis. Because the single express train couple in the inter-zones traffic (FD 111/112) between Cologne and Berlin was permanently overburdened, five additional express train couples started to run over the German domestic boundary on September 10, 1949:

• FD 1/2 between Berlin and Frankfurt am Main
• FD 63/64 between Berlin and Hamburg
• FDt 65/66 as an express train between Berlin and Hamburg
• FD 109/110 as a second train couple between Berlin and Cologne
• FD 149/150 between Berlin and Munich