page_title: Dresden-Friedrichstadt station
section_title: Reconstruction of the marshalling yard between 1890 and 1894
hierarchical_section_title: Dresden-Friedrichstadt station / History / Reconstruction of the marshalling yard between 1890 and 1894
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Reichsbahner-Wohnungen am Dresdner Emerich-Ambros-Ufer
context_page_description: 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 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 —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 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.
context_section_description: At about the same time as the closure of the Berliner Bahnhof, the Dresden-Friedrichstadt marshalling yard was completed immediately south of it and it went into service on 1 May 1894. Designed as a one-sided gravity yard, all tracks, apart from the entry and exit groups, lay on a slope of 1:100. Because of its situation in the middle of the flat Elbe valley, a hump was built from the spring of 1891. In order to provide material for it—a total of 1,55 million cubic metres was needed—the neighbouring basin of the river port of Alberthafen and the trough in the Ostragehege were excavated at the same time. The highest point of the yard, which was  kilometre-long, was located at the northwest end and was 17.73 metres above the level of the lowest point under the Waltherstrasse bridge. Shunting engines pulled wagons up the five-track runoff hump, which each wagon would roll off and be directed by points towards a destination track.
  A new island platform including an entrance building was built for the local passenger traffic some 100 metres to the west of the former passenger station. Passenger trains used the new facilities from 15 October 1892. The station building was not rebuilt after heavy damage in the Second World War, although a service building was built on the basement and foundations of the less formal eastern part. The railway facilities for passenger and freight traffic covered a total of over 54.4 hectares; the length of track at their opening totalled 76.7 kilometres.
  In 1894, the railway administration opened a partially contiguous railway settlement in the immediate vicinity of the station. These included five buildings on the Weißeritz at 54 to 72 Emerich-Ambros-Ufer as well as several houses on Flügelweg. These clinker brick buildings have been preserved to this day.
  To the south of the marshalling yard, the Saxon State Railways also had a large rail workshop, which opened in November 1894, and a railway depot, which was opened at the same time as the station.
caption: Railway workers’ residences on Emerich-Ambros-Ufer (bank), with the canalised Weißeritz on the left
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