Dresden-Friedrichstadt station

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Dresden-Friedrichstadt
goods yard former marshalling yard passenger station
The marshalling yard tracks in 1980
General information
Location	Waltherstraße 36, Dresden, Saxony Germany
Coordinates	51°03′20″N 13°42′15″E / 51.055556°N 13.704167°E / 51.055556; 13.704167
Line(s)	Berlin–Dresden (KBS 240)
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	1348[1]
DS100 code	DF[2]
IBNR	8013475
Category	6[1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	17 June 1875 (Berliner Bahnhof) 1 May 1894 (marshalling yard)
Services
Preceding station DB Regio Nordost Following station Dresden Hbf Terminus RB 31 Dresden-Cotta towards Elsterwerda-Biehla
Location Dresden-Friedrichstadt Location within Saxony

Dresden-Friedrichstadt station is a freight yard that is, along with the two passenger stations of Dresden Hauptbahnhof and Dresden-Neustadt, a central component of the railway node of Dresden in the German state of Saxony. The station precinct, which is located in the Dresden district of Friedrichstadt, also includes a locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk Dresden) and a regional passenger station.

The Berliner Bahnhof, that is the terminus on the line from Berlin, was opened on the site in 1875. A marshalling yard was built from 1890 as a gravity yard, along with a repair shop (Ausbesserungswerk)—which was called the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk Dresden from 1920—and the locomotive depot. After major destruction as a result of the air raids on Dresden during the Second World War, rebuilding began in 1945. By the turn of the century, its significance had diminished. Until the end of hump operations^[3] in 2009, it was along with the Leipzig-Engelsdorf marshalling yard, the only remaining yard in Saxony to handle wagonload freight. After the turn of the millennium, it was redeveloped as a yard for the transhipment of combined transport.