Useful heritage

It goes without saying that in Europe (excluding Spain), industrial heritage is valued and displayed, but Berlin's bus network takes it to the next level.

Of the two shifts that make up line 219, one is served daily with various historic vehicles. This particular shift is operated by a company called Traditionsbus Berlin, which specializes in preserving, restoring and using historic buses. The line runs through a beautiful area next to the Havel River, and the adjacent lake Großer Wannsee.

The several times we have visited Berlin, I have been able to see in this season a first-series Mercedes O405 or a MAN SD202 bodied by Waggon Union and as in the case of the photograph, a MAN SD200 also bodied by Waggon Union.

I would like to thank the members of society for showing me an immense amount of kindness and their efforts and passion in showing me their facilities, with a completely absurd quantity (in the best sense) of explanations, and their enormous and impressive collection, both of buses and related materials.

In this photo we can see the MAN SD200 mentioned before, at the Scholzplatz stop on Am Postfenn Street, serving its turn in line 219.

Scanned photo from negative film.