Dresden-Plauen railway station

Dresden-Plauen (German: Haltepunkt Dresden-Plauen) is a railway station located in Dresden, Germany. The station is located on the Dresden–Werdau line and operated by DB Station&Service.

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Dresden-Plauen railway station in 2006
Location	Altplauen 20, 01187, Dresden, Saxony Germany
Coordinates	51°01′47″N 13°42′11″E
Line(s)	Dresden–Werdau railway
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	1355[1]
DS100 code	DPL[2]
IBNR	08013476
Category	6 [1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	January 1926
Services
Preceding station   Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn   Following station Freital-Potschappel toward Zwickau Hbf RB 30 Dresden Hbf Terminus Preceding station   Dresden S-Bahn   Following station Freital-Potschappel toward Freiberg (Sachs) S 3 Dresden Hbf Terminus
Location
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History

The renovated entrance building from 1897 at the first Dresden-Plauen station, which was active until 1926, as seen from south. The new station is located much closer to residential areas, approximately near the chimney in the picture's background.

The Haltepunkt Plauen bei Dresden ("Plauen near Dresden halt") was opened on 18 June 1855 together with the Albertsbahn (Albert's Railway) and was located to the left (south-east) of the railway. In 1897, the so-called Alte Bahnhof (old station) Plauen was opened with the station building located near the right-hand side of the current tracks. A few months later, the original building was demolished, when the connection to the Felsenkeller brewery was built there.[3] A waiting room was erected in its place, which was moved to the Boderitz-Cunnersdorf halt of the Windbergbahn (Windberg Railway, a former mining railway now used as a heritage railway) in 1923 and still exists today (2016). In 1903, after the incorporation of the village of Plauen into Dresden, the station's name was changed to Dresden-Plauen. Since the station was located quite poorly for the population of Dresden-Plauen, which had now grown to 12,000 people, a new station was opened about 800 m further north in January 1926 and the old station was closed.[4] This halt, opened in 1926, is to be renovated by the middle of 2018.[5] The entrance building that was built in 1897 (the old station) was renovated in the late 1990s and today houses a glass workshop (2016).[3]

Services

Railway services

Regional railway services are currently operated by Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn, suburban S-Bahn services by DB Regio. At this time the following services call at the station:[6]

Local transport

Bus lines 62, 63 and 85 of Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe frequently stop at this station.[7]

Future

DB will be carrying out a bridge replacement and station renovation project in 2020–2022. The current bridge is functionally obsolete.[8] The Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) is considering extending the tram to make a direct connection with the S-Bahn as a part of Stadtbahnprogrammn 2020.[9]

References

1. "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. "Der Grünzug Weißeritz" (PDF) (in German). dresden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
4. Kurt Kaiß, Matthias Hengst: Dresdens Eisenbahn – 1894–1994, Alba, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-87094-350-5, S. 145
5. Annechristin Kleppisch; Linda Barthel (15 May 2014). Lästige Barrieren am Haltepunkt Plauen verschwinden (in German). Sächsische Zeitung. p. 17.
6. Timetables for Dresden-Plauen station (in German)
7. Route timetables of Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG
8. "Bauprojekt Dresden-Plauen" (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
9. "Stadtbahn 2020" (in German). Landeshauptstadt Dresden. Retrieved 8 August 2019.

External links

• Dresden-Plauen | Deutsche Bahn AG - Official DB site (in English).

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