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DH2002-09-23.jpg (145169 bytes)

Dresden Hbf 2002-09-23. Not long after the service has resumed after the flood. In August the tracks were almost a meter under water.

Photo: tobias b köhler

DH_ITL_Rs.jpg (142682 bytes)

A new way of shunting wagons: who needs a locomotive when you have an excavator? Like this it takes several minutes to move the wagon to the other end of the platform, but as track 5 of Dresden Hbf is currently closed for constructions, it seems to be impossible to use a locomotive. The wagon belongs to ITL and is registered by the CD. Dresden Hbf, May 2001.

Photo: tobias b köhler

DH_hall.jpg (139664 bytes)

Dresden Hauptbahnhof, view of the big hall where the tracks from the west end. To both sides of the hall, elevated tracks for through trains to Schöna and Praha are going east - west through the station. In this picture from January 2001 you can see the recently installed blue train indicators. The platform between track 13 and 14 is higher than the others, which is why most ICEs begin and end here. It is planned to renew the whole roof with a new transparent membrane in the same shape, keeping most of the steel structure.

Photo: tobias b köhler

DH_hall11.jpg (127859 bytes)

Dresden Hauptbahnhof, platform track 11/12. On the left, you can see the new blue central indicator. Two local push-pull trains with class 143 locomotives are waiting for departure on tracks 12 and 13. January 2001.

Photo: tobias b köhler

DH_halle2.jpg (149856 bytes)

Dresden Hbf, 2001-02-07: interior of the big central hall. On the left (track 6, not used for regular trains) you see a shunter of class 364. On track 9, a locomotive class 234 waits with a regional train to depart to Görlitz. On track 13, a tilting EMU class 411 from Frankfurt is being cleaned. On the elevated track 18 in the background, another 234 is waiting for departure with an InterRegio train to Nürnberg.

Photo: tobias b köhler

DH_halle3.jpg (118432 bytes)

Dresden Hbf, 2001-02-07: an experimental view, trying to show all three halls from inside. On old photos this looks a lot clearer, because there wasn't as many installations on platform 5. Down in the hall you see the 364 402-8, an old DB shunter that has been rebuilt to radio control.

Photo: tobias b köhler

DH_quer.jpg (118316 bytes)

A view across Dresden Hbf (from the platform between tracks 3 and 4). It still looks a little morbid, but on the other end they have already started completely renewing the roof. 2001-08-23

Photo: tobias b köhler

DH_roof_0307.jpg (141745 bytes)

The roof of Dresden Hbf currently being renewed. The main structure of steel arches remains, but the wood and glass roof is replaced by a white, tent-like membrane, as you can see here. On the platform you can see a double deck cab car of a train to Leipzig.
2003-07-25
tobias benjamin köhler

DH_tafel.jpg (116093 bytes)

The new announcement in the big central hall of Dresden Hbf. This is a standard design seen in numerous stations since a few years. 2001-02-23.

Photo: tobias b köhler

DH_view2.jpg (103542 bytes)

A view across the tracks of Dresden Hbf. You can see the tilting pantograph of a class 411 unit (ICE from Frankfurt) and three regional trains with class 143 locomotives and rolling stock of type By and DBz in two different liveries. Also note the neon sign "Dresden Hauptbahnhof" in the upper right corner - it would be nice if this could be preserved (and repaired) when the station is modernized. 2001-03-21.

Photo: tobias b köhler

DH_zugang.jpg (79694 bytes)

Dresden Hauptbahnhof, interior of the waiting hall. Coming in from DH_empfang.jpg you will end up here. Ticket counters are on the left, shops for food and newspapers on the right. The big ball clock where it's hard to see what time it is, the red metal people behind the clock (with the timetable) and the blue departure indicator on the right are very common in a lot of German stations nowadays. If you continue going forward, you will end up in the train hall (DH_hall11.jpg). January 2001.

Photo: tobias b köhler

DHview.jpg (122407 bytes)

Dresden Hbf, view from elevated track 17 over the central tracks (with an ICT in foreground and a regional train in background) to the elevated track 5 with a double-deck train. 22 July 2000.

Photo: tobias b köhler

DreHbfFE.jpg (75238 bytes)

This was the "Fürsteneingang", a special entrance for the Duke of Saxony, in Dresden Hbf. The platform is currently not in use, the front part of the entrance is used as a cinema, the rest is probably a storage room. Perhaps it will be opened again when the station is rebuilt?

Photo: tobias b köhler

Dresden0.jpg (162756 bytes)

Dresden Hbf rebuilding works
View of Dresden Central Station during its 1997-2006 refurbishment. Assessments of the structure revealed that the steel arches of the train shed had even been distorted out of alignment by wartime damage. It was also discovered that the structure had been damaged by corrosion since the war, rendering it unsuitable to carry the weight of a glazed roof and leading architects to use lightweight fabric instead. Photo taken Sunday 18 May 2003.
Photo: Steffen Mokosch (Steffen.Mokosch@web.de)

Dresden1.jpg (148560 bytes)

Dresden main railway station, main concourse
Main concourse of Dresden Hbf. Information desk on the right, confectionary booth on the left. Photo taken Saturday 6 February 2010.
Photo: Steffen Mokosch (Steffen.Mokosch@web.de)

Dresden_Hbf.jpg (71512 bytes)

Dresden Hauptbahnhof, May 1996. The terminal tracks in the middle of the station are lower than the through tracks to both sides. In the foreground you can see two regional trains with rebuilt DB AG Halberstadt carriages, in the background the EuroCity Vindobona with ÖBB coaches and a CD dining-car.
Photo by Tobias B. Köhler (unci@tigerden.com)

Dresden_Hbf2.jpg (78854 bytes)

One nice detail about Dresden Hbf are all the nice little stairsets (not for public use). This is track 14, at the end of the big hall.

Photo: tobias b köhler

Dresden_Hbf_02.jpg (156770 bytes)