Ruhleben is a

Berlin U-Bahn The Berlin U-Bahn (; short for , "underground railway") is a rapid transit system in Berlin, the capital and largest city of Germany, and a major part of the city's public transport system. Together with the S-Bahn, a network of suburban train li ...

station, the western terminus of line U2. Named after the adjacent ''Ruhleben'' neighbourhood, it is located in the

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district close to the border with

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. The station, with an elevated platform and subjacent entrance hall, was designed by

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, and inaugurated with the westernmost section of the present U2 on 22 December 1929. The tracks end immediately behind the platform without any reversing facility. Plans to extend the U2 toward Spandau were cancelled during the

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and never carried out; they became obsolete after the construction of the U7 to

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in 1984 and the re-opening of the

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of the

Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn () is a rapid transit railway system in and around Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It has been in operation under this name since December 1930, having been previously called the special tariff area ''Berliner Stadt-, Ring ...

in 1998.J. Meyer-Kronthaler, ''Berlins U-Bahnhöfe'', Berlin: be.bra, 1996 In 2010/2011 the station was extensively renovated.

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{{BU-BahnStations U2 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations Berlin U-Bahn stations located above ground Buildings and structures in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Railway stations in Germany opened in 1929