subways and buses. This in turn "forced" the city of Fürth to abandon their tramway network, as it had always been dependent on the link to Nuremberg and the infrastructure within Fürth itself was too small to maintain independent service - the city council of Fürth had never voted either way on whether to maintain tram service, but the decision of Nuremberg ultimately made that a moot point. Initially the planned the terminus in Fürth would have been located at Fürther Freiheit, a central square which had already been the endpoint of the old Ludwig Railway (the historic station building had been torn down by the Nazis in 1938), but ultimately it was deemed more important to provide easy transfer at Fürth Hauptbahnhof to mainline trains. The western terminus of U1 long remained in central Fürth. After the line reached Fürth main station in 1985 it took another nine years for Fürth Stadthalle station and Fürth Rathaus station to extend the line further west and six more years passed before Fürth Klinikum station opened in 2004. Westward extension reached what appears to be a permanent end after the opening of the westernmost station in the system at Fürth Hardhöhe station in 2007. Further plans for expansion towards a station tentatively named "Kieselbühl" are no longer seriously pursued by political actors in Fürth, meaning the line has reached what appears to be its permanent length for the time being. In 2010 the S-Bahn Nuremberg officially extended its line S1 to Bamberg main station via Fürth and Erlangen providing a second urban rail link between Nuremberg and Fürth (besides the U-Bahn) and two new interchange stations between U1 and S1 at Fürth Hauptbahnhof and what was then Unterfarrnbach station (S1) / Klinikum (U1). After a redesign of the S-Bahn station, the former "Unterfarrnbach" name was retired and the S-Bahn stop was renamed "Fürth Klinikum" in line with the U-Bahn stop in 2022. Line Design The route begins at the Langwasser Süd station, at the southern end of which a four-track parking and sweeping system is located, and initially runs underground via the community building ("Gemeinschaftshaus") to Langwasser Mitte station. Thereafter, the route reaches the street level and henceforth runs in the median strip of Otto-Bärnreuther-Straße on the route of a planned in the 1950s tram line. In front of the next station Scharfreiterring the access to the underground depot is undercut. The