In West Berlin and still hemmed in by the surrounding Berlin Wall, new residential developments established to the city’s northwest, and by the late-1970s many recognized the great need to extend the underground lines to service the new residents. The U7 line in the northwest extended to Rohrdamm by 1980; and by 1984, the section from Rohrdamm to Rathaus Spandau officially opened for public service.
Are these designs a sign of the times (i.e., the 1970s and 1980s)? What more can I say: I’m a product of the `70s and `80s, and these patterns and colours seem “natural” to this greying traveller. 🫶🏽
Close-up of the U7 track map in Spandau, by Christian Stade on www.gleisplanweb.de (CC BY-NC-SA). I’ve highlighted in blue the stations featured here in alphabetical order: Halemweg, Paulsternstrasse, Rohrdamm, Siemensdamm.
Halemweg
U7 station Halemweg, track level. The station opened for public service on 1 October 1980. (Now technically, Halemweg is in Charlottenburg-Nord, but close enough.)
Halemweg: how orange is now?
Station signage: U-Bahn line by number and colour, near-side train direction (to Rathaus Spandau), closest station-exits.
Paulsternstrasse
U7 station Paulsternstrasse, track level. The station opened for public service on 1 October 1984.
“Look at the stars, look how they shine for you …”
Station signage: U-Bahn line by number and colour, near-side train direction (to Rathaus Spandau), closest station-exit and additional transport connection.
U7 train departing Paulsternstrasse for Rudow.
Rohrdamm
U7 station Rohrdamm, track level. The station opened for public service on 1 October 1980.
Station signage: U-Bahn line by number and colour, near-side train direction (to Rudow), closest station-exits and other transport connections.
U7 train departing Rohrdamm for Rathaus Spandau.
Siemensdamm
Erste elektrische Lokomotive der Welt auf der Gewerbeausstellung in Berlin, 1879 / The world’s first electric locomotive at the 1879 trade fair in Berlin: oh look, it’s Berlin company Siemens & Halske in the picture.
U7 station Siemensdamm, track level. The station opened for public service on 1 October 1980. The Siemens family and business(es) have had a massive impact on the engineering and economic development of Berlin and Germany.
I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 9 June 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
Gleisdreieck (“railway triangle”, “triangular junction”) is a U-Bahn train- and junction-station at the western end of the Kreuzberg district in the German capital city of Berlin.
The station has both upper-level and lower-level platforms serving lines U1 and U2, respectively, although both sets of track are raised above ground. At Gleisdreieck, the U1 line runs west-east, whereas the U2 line runs perpendicularly and temporarily “north-south”. ( Click here for more )
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