Scale/Gauge: HO
Size: 16ft by 10ft
Theme: 1960s-70s Germany
Show Location: Sports Hall

Friedrichstrasse is a station with a complicated past. Today it still is a major station, but for 40 years was also a frontier post – the boundary between East and West Berlin. A busy station, it is served by a mixture of local s-bahn services, outer suburban, express, and ‘inter-zonal’ (services to West Germany) trains. All supported by a busy tram service. This model is not a slavish copy of Friedrichstrasse; more an impression of the area and the types of trains seen in Germany (mainly the East) during the late 1960s and 1970s – the period when this layout is set.

The layout has a mixture of modified kit and scratch built structures, with the main station buildings being based on the real Friedrichstrasse station. It is digital controlled, featuring trains from most of the main German manufacturers.