Dresden Airport train station

Dresden Airport
Data
Operating point type	railway station
Location in the network	Terminus
Design	Tunnel station
Platform tracks	2
abbreviation	DKTF
IBNR	8011399
Price range	5
opening	March 25, 2001
Profile on Bahnhof.de	Dresden_Airport
location
City / municipality	Dresden
Place / district	Klotzsche
country	Saxony
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 7 '29 "  N , 13 ° 45' 58"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 7 '29 "  N , 13 ° 45' 58"  E
Railway lines
Dresden-Klotzsche-Dresden Airport (km 3.35)
Railway stations and stops in Saxony

The Dresden Airport Station is the airport station of Dresden . The station was opened on March 25, 2001 together with the 1.15 km extension of the Klotzsche – Grenzstrasse railway to Dresden Airport. The station was the first and, until the opening of the Leipzig City Tunnel, the only underground station in Saxony.

description

Due to the increased number of passengers after the fall of the Wall , construction of a new airport terminal began. This should receive a train station in the lower ground.

220 million euros were invested in the airport terminal, which includes the train station. The Free State of Saxony funded the airport's rail connection with almost 50 million euros.

Construction of the airport's rail connection began on July 30, 1998. The precast concrete tunnel had been completed by summer 1999. The double-track terminus station connected to the single-track line was equipped with a 55 cm high central platform and two 140 m long platform edges. With the completion of the connecting line and the new terminal on March 25, 2001, the terminus was opened. The station is located in the basement of the terminal (level K) and is connected to it by stairs , escalators and elevators . In addition, there is another stair access in the northern area of ​​the platform as an emergency exit .

After its completion, the station initially had no electrical contact lines. The tracks were fitted with exhaust extraction devices for operation with diesel railcars. There is a fire barrier between the train station and the airport terminal, which can be closed in the event of danger.

It was not until December 2004 that the tracks in the station were equipped with overhead conductor rails for electrical rail operations. Since then, instead of diesel multiple units, locomotive trains with electric locomotives have been running to the airport.

In the currently valid zoning plan of the city of Dresden, a route is kept free for a continuation of the railway line in the southwest area of ​​the station. With this connection, a loop is to be built from the Dresden-Industriegelände train station over the airport, which joins the Dresden – Görlitz line to the east. There are no concrete plans to implement this project (status: 2013).

Transport offer

DB Regio serves the station with the S-Bahn line 2 with 78 daily train journeys every 30 minutes. The journey time from the airport to Dresden Hbf is 21 minutes; to Pirna 46 minutes.

In city ​​traffic, there are links to the bus lines of the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe 80 ( Dresden-Klotzsche train station - Dresden Airport - Omsewitz ; every 20 minutes) and 77 (Klotzsche-Infineon - Dresden Airport; every 10/20 minutes).

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Dresden Flughafen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Deutsche Bahn AG (Ed.): 10 years from train to flight: VVO, Dresden S-Bahn and Dresden International Airport celebrate anniversary ( memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 118 kB), 28 March 2011.
2. ^ Message from DB Netz: Dresden Airport is getting a train connection . In: Railway technical review . 48, No. 7/8, 1999, p. 411.
3. ↑ Track map available from the infrastructure register of DB Netz AG from Dresden Airport (select train station), accessed on March 15, 2019.
4. ^ Johannes Raddatz: Railway in Saxon Switzerland Volume 4 Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-941712-24-9 , p. 106.
5. ↑ City of Dresden: Land use plan (PDF; 50.7 MB), accessed on March 15, 2019.