Bad Schandau railway station

Bad Schandau S
Separation station
Bad Schandau railway station
Location	Am Bahnhof 5, 01814 Bad Schandau, Saxony Germany
Coordinates	50°55′06″N 14°08′21″E / 50.91833°N 14.13917°E / 50.91833; 14.13917Coordinates: 50°55′06″N 14°08′21″E / 50.91833°N 14.13917°E / 50.91833; 14.13917
Line(s)	Děčín hl.n.–Dresden-Neustadt (km 22.760) Bautzen–Bad Schandau (km 64.183)
Platforms	4
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	335
DS100 code	DSA
IBNR	8010022
Category	3
History
Opened	1 July 1877
Services
Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station Dresden toward Hamburg-Altona or Berlin EuroCity Děčín hl.n. toward Budapest Preceding station   DB Regio   Following station Pirna toward Dresden Hbf RE 20 Wanderexpress Bohemica Schöna toward Litoměřice město Rathmannsdorf toward Rumburk U 28 National Park Railway Krippen toward Děčín hl.n. Preceding station   Dresden S-Bahn   Following station Königstein (Sachs) toward Meißen Triebischtal S 1 Krippen toward Schöna

Bad Schandau station is a minor junction station in Bad Schandau in the German state of Saxony. The station is located on the south bank on the Elbe on the Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway and it is also the terminus of the Bautzen–Bad Schandau railway. The town is located on the north side of the river and is connected to the station by a ferry and a road bridge.

Bad Schandau is a frontier station for international traffic between Germany and the Czech Republic. Bad Schandau station is now the only long-distance stop in the touristic area and national park of Saxon Switzerland. It is marketed as a "national park station" by Deutsche Bahn and the municipality of Bad Schandau.

About 1,600 passengers and visitors pass through and 94 trains stop at the station each day.

Bad Schandau received its rail connection with the opening of the Königstein–Krippen section of the Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway (then known as the Saxon-Bohemian Railway—Sächsisch-Böhmische Staatseisenbahn) on 9 June 1850. The last section from Krippen to the border was opened less than a year later, on 6 April 1851, completing the through railway from Dresden to Prague. At the time the current Krippen station was the station of Schandau.

With the construction of Bautzen–Bad Schandau railway and the strong growth in traffic, a new station was opened in 1877 at the current location under the name of Schandau. Since July 1920, it has had its current name of Bad Schandau, with the Bad (bath) reflecting Schandau’s status as a spa town.

The station was rebuilt and enlarged in 1920. In this context, it received a new locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk) and additional tracks. The station was mainly used for local freight and passenger traffic, but it also had significant tourist traffic for visitors to the region. In 1945 the second track and parts of the station tracks were dismantled as war reparations to the Soviet Union.