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A topic that me is fascinated again and again: the underground, road or rail (not to be confused with the S-Bahn !).

This is the term for those funny half-above ground, half-underground public transport things on the go in many German cities. The travel times on the road, sometimes in tunnels, sometimes simply through the area, and thus are neither right nor roads underground. The first drive that is just down the street with the cars without their own routes, and there were relatively few cities like Berlin and Munich. And the latter need not always go underground - can even go up a few meters in the air - but have always had their own, have cut off from all other transport routes, as in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich etc.

But say only least in everyday usage, "light rail". In Dusseldorf, for example, is said to all tram or underground, depending on where you start and how. This was also for years supported the fact that the underground city rail lines were signposted by the main train station with "underground". Good of the comprehensive technical simplicity and the urbane, cosmopolitan connotations sake.

Now, after careful restoration in the Central Station is anything but pretty accurate - and as happened elsewhere in Dusseldorf and surroundings - "Stadbahn" but with a U, because people are still underground to say the things. Take it but partly underground.