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My favourite thing about U7 is the Jungfernheide station. It sort of quite bland and even neglected but... it hides an extra platform that was supposed to connect centre of the city with Berlin Airport (now sadly closed).

The station also used to connect to Siemensbahn which is a totally dilapidated and forgotten train line with a huge historical significance for the city.

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My favorite station in Berlin is where they don’t shoot drugs or smoke. Not that many, actually.

Welcome to U8 Schoenleinstr! Believe or not it was used to be okay for me just 4~5 years ago.. now it's almost same as cesspit.

I lived off Schönleinstraße and can attest to this. I heard it was due to a crackdown in Hermanplatz pushing people one stop over?

I think it’s more because of the police at Kotti

Also crackdown and constant police presence on Kotti.

I haven’t been to SF, but I heard that excrements are essential for being a startup capital.

Try looking around Friedenau, one of the most peaceful and posh parts of the inner city.

For what it's worth, I believe there are plans to reactivate the Siemensbahn tracks for a new line by 2025... or so I've read? Can't quite remember.

Quite appropriately, there are plans to reactivate it to serve the new Siemens research campus that is currently under construction.

Which airport was that? Tempelhof?

Tegel.

Tempelhof has a subway station right in front of it.

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I didn’t realise Tegel finally closed! What a dream airport that was

Oh wow, they closed it last November? I hadn’t realised. I flew through there the last time I was in Berlin, January of last year (was supposed to go again during the summer but then covid prevented that)

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