 Furthermore, over the next few years the ongoing expansion of the electric S-Bahn system would supersede its role in the local network too.Ultimately though, it was the deepening crisis in political relations between East and West that sealed the station's fate, and made its position as a Western station operating an Eastern line untenable.It therefore came as no surprise when the GDR decided to close Görlitzer Bahnhof to passenger trains on 29 April 1951.