Meaning of ghost station | Babel Free

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A disused metro station that is passed through, but not stopped at, by passenger trains.

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“In Berlin, however, there is a handful of 'proper' ghost stations that can still be uncovered and observed, if not always visited. They constitute one of the German capital's lesser-known Cold War features, the so-called Geisterbahnhoffe^([sic]). […] Ghost stations (and platforms) appeared as a direct⟳ result⟳ of the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. […] With the collapse of the Wall and the reunification of Germany, the divided stations and railway lines of Berlin were 'reunited' too. The last⟳ 'ghost station' was reopened to all passengers in 1992, and the very term - "ghost station" - had come⟳ to denote any disused platform remaining from the divide⟳.”

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