15th Dresden Steam Engine Festival 15^th - 16^th April 2023

On this site we will publish all information about the festival, the corresponding special steam trains and the surrounding program, as soon as they are fix set up.

Find here:

• General Information
• Opening hours and prices
• Planned locomotives
• Special Steam Trains program
• Train time schedule
• Surrounding program to the festival
• Partners to the festival

(State of planning December 2022)

General information

The Dresdner Dampfloktreffen has established its place among railway and steam galas in Saxony for many years. Vintage trains from various regions of Germany as well as from neighbouring countries intend to approach Dresden, for their travellers and rolling stock to attend this gala. Similar to previous years, we intend to have illuminated evening photo sessions (Friday and Saturday) and a live music concert "Steam & Dixie" (Saturday night). An attractive programme of half-day excursion trains will be offered. We cordially welcome you as our travelling guests, in addition to "feel" the atmosphere in our depot.

In the year 2022 the former Bw Dresden-Altstadt became 150 years old.

Again we will organize our nightly locomotive presentation for photographers around the turntable as well as the live music event "Dampf & Dixie" (Steam and Dixie music) in our roundhouse.

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Opening hours and prices

The festival ground will be open on Saturday and Sunday (April 15^th/16^th) between 10 am. and 6 pm.
The evening events will start at 7 pm. After 6 pm. all guests are requested to leave the festival ground.
For the evening events, only the event ticket is needed. It can be purchased separately from tickets for general admission.

• Tickets for admission: 18,- Euro (one-day-ticket) per person (Link to our webshop)
• Reduced tickets for admission, only for disabled people and 15 to 17 years old children: 12,- Euro (Link to our webshop)
  
• Nightly photo session on Friday: 25,- Euro per person (Link to our webshop)
• Nightly photo session on Saturday: 25,- Euro per person (Link to our webshop)
• Live music event "Dampf & Dixie" on Saturday: 15,- Euro per person (Link to our webshop)
• Special excursion trains: 49,- Euro per person and train (Link to the train section)

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Planned locomotives

35 1097 - IG 58 3047 e.V.

50 3648 - Sächsisches Eisenbahnmuseum Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf e.V.

52 8141 - Ostsächsische Eisenbahnfreunde e.V.

112 481 - MaS Bahnconsult

E77 10 - IG Bw Dresden-Altstadt e.V. / DB Museum

More locomotives will be added when confirmed.

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Special Steam Trains

Friday afternoon:

• "Fan-ride": special steam train Dresden main station - Nossen - Dresden main station
  
• Estimated departure around 2:00 pm.
• Tickets in our webshop
  

Saturday morning:

• City tour: Dresden main station - Freital-Potschappel - Dresden-Friedrichstadt - Coswig - Radebeul - "HK" connection - Dresden main station
• Hauled by a steam locomotive and our historic electrical locomotive E 77 10 in a "sandwich" combination
• Estimated departure around 10:00 am.
• Tickets in our webshop
  

Saturday evening:

• "With Steam and Diesel into the evening": Dresden main station - Bischofswerda - Dresden-Neustadt - Tharandt - Klingenberg-Colmnitz (including Klotzsche ramp and Tharandt ramp)
• Hauled by a steam and a Diesel locomotive in "sandwich" combination
• Estimated departure around 6:30 pm.
• Tickets in our webshop
  

Sunday morning:

• Parallel ride on Tharandt ramp: parallel ride to a goods train Dresden main station - Tharandt - Dresden main station
  
• pessenger train hauled by a steam locomotive and our historic electrical locomotive E 77 10, goods train hauled by a steam locomotive
• Estimated departure in the early morning
• Tickets in our webshop
  

Sunday afternoon:

• Departure of our steam locomotive stars: Dresden main station - Freiberg - Dresden main station
• Hauled by the 2 departing steam locomotives to Freiberg and by our historic electrical locomotive E 77 10 back to Dresden
• Estimated departure in the late afternoon
• Tickets in our webshop
  

All trains depart and arrive at Dresden main station. For spontaneous travellers, there are one or two coaches on each train, where tickets can be bought on the train.

All trains will be operated after reaching cost coverage, only.

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Program frame around the Steam Engine Festival

The Dresden Transport Museum is partner to our festival, again. It's depot along Zwickauer Straße (roundhouse 4 and shed 5) will be opened as well as it's main building at Johanneum (right beside the Church of our Lady) in Dresden downtown. A historic bus shuttle will connect the festival ground Zwickauer Straße with Dresden main station and Johanneum.

The Steam Engine Festival is surrounded by a colorful program. Dealers offer a wide range of railway or model railway articles. Different caterers offer food and drinks. Periodically we guide you through our historic model railway section. On Friday and Saturday evening there are our special events, the nightly locomotive presentation on our turntable (both days), where the locomotives are presented in a special illumination, as well as the live music event "Dampf & Dixie" on Saturday. The events start at 7 pm. (special admission). Our cafeteria offers drinks right behind the roundhouse.

Between 10 am. and 6 pm. you can book a ride in a steam locomotive's cabin, starting on the track beside the turntable. Locomotives are presented on the turntable and you can listen to explanations about them.

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Partners to the 14^th Dresdner Dampfloktreffen

		DB Regio Dresden				ITL Eisenbahngesellschaft Dresden
Lausitzer Dampflok Club e.V.				S-Bahn Dresden
		Supporting association for the Dresden Railway Museum				Augustustours
Dresden Transport Museum				Flügelradtouristik e.V.

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