page_title: Dresden-Friedrichstadt station
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Dresden-Friedrichstadt station / Location
caption_attribution_description: Original image description from the Deutsche Fotothek Facharbeiter für Eisenbahntransporttechnik, Stellwerks- und Zugmeldedienst
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: The freight yard is located west of the historic old town (Altstadt). The yard extend over two kilometres from east to west. It extends over the entire south-western part of the district of Friedrichstadt and as a result it is largely located in the old town. Its north-western point is in the middle of the district of Cotta; in the southeast it almost reaches into the district of Wilsdruffer Vorstadt, which is part of the old town.
  The canalised Weißeritz flows south of the yard towards the Elbe, which it reaches shortly after it has passed under the westernmost part of the marshalling yard. The eastern part of the yard is also close to this river, which runs from the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge), or its former bed, making it prone to flooding.
  The yard is officially located 230 metres from the end of the Berlin–Dresden railway, which extends in the city from its centre to the Elbe bridge in Niederwartha and Cossebaude. It is accessed from the junction of the Leipzig–Dresden railway with the line from Berlin to the northwest of Dresden near the border between the towns of Coswig and Radebeul; it is also accessed there by rail freight traffic from Leipzig. The passenger traffic to and from the northwest, for example Dresden S-Bahn services, mainly use the Leipzig line via Pieschen and Dresden-Neustadt station.
  Immediately east of the Dresden-Friedrichstadt yard, the Berlin–Dresden railway meets the inner-city link between the neighbouring stations of Dresden Hauptbahnhof and Dresden-Neustadt at a wye junction. This connects the line with the Dresden–Děčín, Dresden–Werdau and Dresden–Görlitz railways. The next station away from the city is Dresden-Cotta station. To the west of the station, a short line branches to the north to the river port of Alberthafen and is used exclusively for the transport of goods. This is located just one kilometre north of the yard and the two facilities work together to handle multimodal transport. Among other things, the port has had a roll-on/roll-off facility able to handle a permissible maximum load of 500 tonnes since 2007.
caption: Desk of a class W1 relay interlocking on the eastern side of the yard (1975)
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