Dresden-Klotzsche railway station

Dresden-Klotzsche S
Dresden-Klotzsche railway station (before renovation in 2016)
Location	Dresden-Klotzsche, Saxony Germany
Coordinates	51°06′52″N 13°47′19″E / 51.11444°N 13.78861°E / 51.11444; 13.78861Coordinates: 51°06′52″N 13°47′19″E / 51.11444°N 13.78861°E / 51.11444; 13.78861
Line(s)	Görlitz–Dresden railway Dresden-Klotzsche–Königsbrück railway Dresden-Klotzsche–Dresden Airport railway
Platforms	4
Tracks	4
Other information
Station code	1351
DS100 code	DKT
IBNR	8010088
Category	4
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 September 1875
Previous names	Klotzsche-Königswald
Services
Preceding station   Vogtlandbahn   Following station Dresden-Neustadt toward Dresden Hbf RE 1 Trilex Radeberg toward Görlitz or Wrocław Główny Dresden-Neustadt toward Dresden Hbf RE 2 Trilex Radeberg toward Zittau or Liberec Dresden Industriegelände toward Dresden Hbf RB 60 Trilex Langebrück toward Görlitz Dresden Industriegelände toward Dresden Hbf RB 61 Trilex Langebrück toward Zittau Preceding station   Städtebahn Sachsen   Following station Dresden Industriegelände toward Dresden-Neustadt RB 33 Weixdorf Bad toward Königsbrück Dresden Industriegelände toward Dresden Hbf RB 34 Langebrück toward Kamenz Preceding station   Dresden S-Bahn   Following station Dresden Grenzstraße toward Dresden Flughafen S 2 Dresden Industriegelände toward Pirna

Dresden-Klotzsche (German: Bahnhof Dresden-Klotzsche) is a railway station in the town of Klotzsche, Saxony, Germany. The station lies on the Görlitz–Dresden railway, Dresden-Klotzsche–Königsbrück railway and Dresden-Klotzsche–Dresden Flughafen railway.

In the early decades since the opening of the Görlitz–Dresden railway by the Saxon-Silesian Railway Company (German: Sächsisch-Schlesische Eisenbahngesellschaft) in the first part of 1845, trains ran past Klotzsche. In 1873, the Royal Saxon State Railways (which had taken over the company in 1851) was directed to build Klotzsche-Königswald station, so that the royal family’s summer trips to the Dresden Heath (Dresdner Heide) could start by train to Klotzsche. The station was named after the locality that developed a little later into the villa estate of Königswald.

From 1884, the narrow gauge railway to Königsbrück had its terminus on the station forecourt. For freight transport it used a forerunner of the modern container system, known as Umsetzkästen. A gantry crane in Klotzsche station allowed the transshipment of goods between standard and narrow gauge wagons. In particular, pottery from the Königsbrück area could be reloaded very carefully. After 13 years of operation, the line was converted to standard gauge and it connected with the existing Dresden–Görlitz railway to the north of the station. Until 1945, this connection was grade-separated.

In 1907 the section from Dresden-Neustadt to Klotzsche was upgraded to three tracks. The current station building and track layout were built as part of the project. A branch line to Weißig-Bühlau, which was also projected at that time, only reached the planning stage. It would have run on a in a sharp curve immediately north of the station through the Prießnitz valley and produce a link at its destination with the Dürrröhrsdorf–Weißig railway.