Afternoon all!

Been feeling a bit nauseous this morning, so I felt I might make some use of the pleasant weather we're having and go outside to get some fresh air after my course. I'd been planning to check out the newly built light rail line to the Riedberg quarter in the northwestern part of Frankfurt for some time now, so I headed there and took my camera with me. This route will open for scheduled service on 12 December and driver familiarization rides were planned to begin today. It will be served by two lines - U8 from Southern Station to Riedberg and U9 from Ginnheim to Nieder-Eschbach via Riedberg.

Looking along Riedbergallee to the northeast - there still is much construction work going on here, both on the rail line and in the living quarter as a whole. There also is one of the university's campuses up here, which is dedicated to physics and other branches of science.

A single U5 type LRV - car 604, to be exact - was performing a press special/route learning service on the new line, having been given a special promotional livery for the new Riedberg line and living quarter on this occasion. Of course, Murphy's law struck in that the infamous "photo cloud" came and said hello as well...

Looking the other way - the Riedberg line continuing into the background and connecting to the U3 line a few kilometres away.

A few impressions of a newly born borough which is still growing up...

I then headed over to the U3 line to try and snap another few photos.

A few hundred metres before the Niederursel stop, a double unit of U4 type LRVs is coming down from Hohemark Station in Oberursel - the Taunus Mountains can be seen in the background.

...while another set was heading the opposite way.

This is the junction where the Riedberg line branches off to the right.

This sign says, "Caution - overhead line energized with 700 V."

And another U3 service is heading up to Hohemark in the afternoon sun.

This is a neutral OHLE section, called a "Trennstelle" in German .

Panoramic view in the fields between Oberursel and Frankfurt .

And that would be it for this time!