 After only a few months, it was accommodating 70,000 travellers a day and during the whole of 1880, approximately 1,5 million people used Görlitzer Bahnhof.Its popularity had a stimulating effect on the surrounding area, with shops and cafés springing up in the neighbouring streets, helping to establish it as one of the liveliest in the city.Aside from the transport of people, the line also served as a vital trade route connecting the capital with the cloth factories, and the brick and glass works of industrial Görlitz.