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.

Additional special steam train Dresden-Pirna-Dresden Saturday (today) 4 pm.

We were able to organize an additional special steam train on the open track between Dresden and Pirna, operated by two steam locomotives. Please come to Dresden main station at 4 pm.

Bomb found at Nossener Brücke: On Saturday the area around Nossener Brücke, including our festival ground, will be evacuated starting 6:00 am. After 10:00 am. the bomb should be disarmed. The responsible people expect a disarming time until 11:00 am. After end of evacuation the festival ground will open immediately.
The special train on Saturday morning must be cancelled because the track to Tharandt is closed.

Please notice: Ticket pre-sale is over. Tickets for admission can be bought at our cash counters. Tickets for the evening events can be bought at the evening cash counter, only. Remaining train tickets are still available on all trains.
All paid tickets are sent. If you have paid your tickets, but didn't get them, please have a look into your spam folder, or contact us on bestellung(at)igbwdresdenaltstadt.de
The train time schedules are available now.

Outlook: 16^th Dresden Steam Engine Festival 13^th/14^th of April 2024

Find here:

• General Information
• Opening hours and prices
• Planned locomotives
• Special Steam Trains program
• Train time schedule
• Surrounding program to the festival
• Time schedule for bus shuttle between festival ground, main station and Dresden Transport Museum
• 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.

41 1144 - IG Werrabahn e.V.

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

52 8141 - Ostsächsische Eisenbahnfreunde e.V.

52 8154 - Eisenbahnmuseum Bayerischer Bahnhof Leipzig e.V.

354.195 - ČD Nostalgie - cancelled due to technical problems

112 481 - MaS Bahnconsult

120 274 - Förderverein Bahnbetriebswerk Arnstadt/hist. e.V.

132 068 - Salzland Rail Service

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

T478.1002 - ČD Nostalgie (Vorserien-Bardotka)

T679.1529 - ČD Nostalgie (Sergej / Taigatrommel)

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Special Steam Trains

Friday afternoon:

• "Fan-ride": special steam train Dresden main station - Nossen - Dresden main station
  
• Time schedule
  

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
• Time schedule
  

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
• Time schedule
  

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
• Time schedule
  

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
• Time schedule
  

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.

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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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13th Dresden Steam Engine Festival October 08th - 10th, 2021

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.

Information about the Corona virus and the 13th Steam Engine Festival 2021

Please note: The Covid-19 test facility has shortly cancelled their participation. Please use other test facilities in Dresden: www.dresden.de/corona-testzentren

The actual situation allows such major events like our Steam festival. At the moment there are some Covid-19 based constraints. Admission to festival ground is allowed for people with full immunisation (e.g. double vaccination certificate or a certificate of complete recovery in combination with a single vaccine certificate). By now admission is also possible having an official negative Covid 19 test certificate, not older than 24 hours. Checking the certificates may take a while at the cash counter. Thanks for understanding! Tracking addresses is required. We are a registered location in "LUCA app" and "Pass4All app", usable on smart phones. Not registered visitors must fill out a form for address tracking at our cash counter.

The need for full immunisation, recovery in combination with vaccination or negative test certificate is required for train passengers in touristic trains as well!

Information about the ticket pre-sale

The ticket pre-sale is closed now, but there are still enough tickets at our cash counters or at our special trains.

We want to keep up with the time and use the restrictions due to the Corona pandemic to fulfill the wish of many guests: We change our ticket system to electronic tickets. After ticket purchase we will send a QR code, which must be shown when entering the festival ground or in the special steam trains. This code can be printed or simply shown on a smartphone. As a result, there is no more shipping fee or needed time for international shipping. You can pay using bank transfer or paypal and you will get your tickets early enough prior to the festival attached to an email.
For admission to the festival ground you need the name and address of the ticket purchaser for validation at the cash counter!

Find here:

• General Information
• Why won't the cancelled 12th Dresden Steam Engine Festival simply take place in 2021?
• Planned special steam trains and guest locomotives
• "Dampf & Dixie" (Steam and Dixie music) - The live music event
• Important information about the nightly locomotive photo presentation
• Further information about the festival ground and program
• Time schedule for bus shuttle between Dresden main station and festival ground
• Partners to the festival

(State of planning September, 25^th 2021)

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 and full-day excursion trains will be offered. We cordially welcome you as our travelling guests, in addition to "feel" the atmosphere in our depot.

Tickets to the museums grounds are of course valid for the festival area at Zwickauer Straße. Furthermore, they allow single-entry to Verkehrsmuseum Dresden "Johanneum" at Neumarkt (close to Frauenkirche) at one of the three days of the festival. It is up to you to attend Zwickauer Straße and Johanneum at the same day or to split the visit to two individual days within the timeframe of April 09 to 11.

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Why we don't simply move the cancelled 12th Steam Engine Festival into 2021

The 12th Dresden Steam Engine Festival had to be cancelled due to the restrictions, issued by the local authoroties, connected to the distribution of Corona virus "Covid-19". To move the date into 2021 is not possible, e.g. some of the planned steam locomotives cannot participate next year. The reasons are diverse. Some of them need a new general inspection, which takes longer than the remaining time to the next festival is. The concluded contracts with guest loco partners have to be re-newed and the special train program must be adapted to the circumstances next year. Construction plans can prevent us from using a track and so on.

For this reasons we decided to continue numbering of our festivals and to held the 13th steam festival in 2021.

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Planned special steam trains and guest locomotives

We have invited the following six steam locomotives: 01 202, 35 1097, 50 3610, 50 3648, 52 8141 and the Czech 434.2186. Beside them there will also be historic Diesel and electrical locomotives.

Attention! A ride in our special steam trains is possible for full vaccinated, recovered+vaccinated or official negative tested visitors only!

Friday, Oct, 08^th 2021

• Dresden main station – Freiberg – Dresden‐Neustadt – Bischofswerda – Dresden main station
  Planned locomotives: 50 3648 + E77 10 und 50 3610
  Departure Dresden main station 01:25 pm. platform 12
  Arrival Dresden main station 06:55 pm.
  (via Tharandt ramp and Klotzsche ramp)
  Ticket p.p. 45,00 € (Combination ticket, consisting of train ticket and daily admission for one of the 3 festival days to the festival ground, p.p. 60,00 €)
  

Saturday, Oct, 09^th 2021

• Morning: Dresden main station – Nossen – Döbeln – Waldheim – Chemnitz – Dresden main station
  Planned locomotives: 01 202 to Chemnitz, 50 3610 to Dresden
  Departure Dresden main station 08:23 am. platform 12
  Arrival Dresden main station 12:33 pm.
  Ticket p.p. 45,00 € (Combination ticket, consisting of train ticket and daily admission for one of the 3 festival days to the festival ground, p.p. 60,00 €)
  
• Afternoon: Dresden main station – Kamenz – Hosena – Senftenberg and back
  Planned locomotives: 35 1097 + 112 481 (112 to Dresden-Klotzsche)
  Departure Dresden main station 01:23 pm. platform 1
  Arrival Dresden main station 06:05 pm.
  Ticket p.p. 45,00 € (Combination ticket, consisting of train ticket and daily admission for one of the 3 festival days to the festival ground, p.p. 60,00 €)
  
• Nightly train Dresden - Cottbus - Dresden, hauled by 01 202
  Departure Dresden main station 07:31 pm.
  Arrival Dresden main station 01:34 am.
  Compartment coach
  Bar coach
  Ticket p.p. 45,00 € (Ticket sale only in train)

Sunday, Oct, 10^th 2021

• Morning: Tharandt ramp, parall ride to special goods train
  Planned locomotives: 35 1097 passenger train + E77 10, 50 3648 goods train
  Departure Dresden main station 08:15 am. platform 12
  Arrival Dresden main station 10:40 am.
  
• Afternoon: Radebeul-Ost - Dresden-Friedrichstadt - Pirna - Neustadt/Sa.
  Planned locomotives: 50 3610 + 112 481
  Departure Dresden main station: 12:38 pm.
  Arrival Dresden main station: 04:09 pm.
  (duration ca. 4,5 hours)
  Features: Ride on goods train track between Dresden-Neustadt and Dresden-Friedrichstadt; train is operated in "sandwich" by Steam and Diesel due to the direction changes
  Ticket p.p. 45,00 € (Combination ticket, consisting of train ticket and daily admission for one of the 3 festival days to the festival ground, p.p. 60,00 €)
  Information: We decided to cancel our train to Czech Republic this year because of the changing regulations for abroad trains. We hope you would like our alternative train to Radebeul-Ost and Großröhrsdorf.
  

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Important information about the nightly locomotive photo presentation

Until a short while before the beginning of our festival, there will be no valid information about the Corona based restrictions along the nightly locomotive presentation on our turntable. We decided not to sell any tickets for the photo events in ticket pre-sale this year. All tickets for the evening photo event will be available at the evening cash counter. We still do not know how many of the 200 seats we can offer, or if there will be a need of masks or a mininmum distance between photografers. As soon as we will have these information, they will be published here. Thanks for your understanding!

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"Dampf & Dixie" (Steam and Dixie music) - The live music event

There will be our live music event "Dampf & Dixie" in the roundhouse on Saturday night (Oct 9^th) as usual. We will publish further information about the Dixie music bands and framework conditions for admission here, soon.
Information in German are also available on the special >>> website of "Dampf und Dixie" <<<.
Here we will offer tickets in our webshop

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Further information about the festival ground and program

The historic bus shuttle between Dresden main station and the festival ground will be available as usual. The association friends of historic busses will offer that service again.

Unfortunately the field train between the Depot of Dresden Transport Museum and the railway museum won't be available this year. The sidewalk will be used for the one-way pathes for our guests.

The Dresden Transport Museum wants to be part of our festival again. They will open their sheds along the street Zwickauer Strasse as usual. At the moment there are constructions right beside that area on the railway track. Due to this there might be reduced places for exhibits on the sliding stage area. When available, further information will follow here.

Along street Zwickauer Straße there will be our seller's area with railway-based offers. Around the entrance to the railway museum there will be the food and catering area as usual.

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Partners to the 13th Dresden Steam Engine Festival

		DB Regio Dresden				ITL Eisenbahngesellschaft Dresden
Lausitzer Dampflok Club e.V.				Förderverein für das Eisenbahnmuseum Dresden e.V. (Supporting Association for the Dresden Railway Museum)
		S-Bahn Dresden				Augustustours (Travel agency Augustustours)
Verkehrsmuseum Dresden (Dresden Transport Museum)				Flügelradtouristik e.V.

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16^th Dresden Steam Engine Festival
13^th - 14^th April 2024

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
• Time schedule for bus shuttle between festival ground, main station and Dresden Transport Museum
• Partners to the festival

(State of planning April 2023)

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 13^th/14^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

The guest locomotives will be published here, when they are confirmed.

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Special Steam Trains

The special excursion train program will be published here, later.

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.

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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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12th Dresden Steam Engine Festival cancelled

• Information about our festival and the Corona virus
• Partners of the 12th Steam Engine Festival

Information about our festival and the Corona virus "Covid-19"

The 12th Dresden Steam Engine Festival had to be cancelled because of the ristrictions, issued by the local authorities. Also the special events (Nightly photo parade, live music event "Dampf & Dixie" as well as all special steam trains) are affected and cancelled. We are very sad about that, but your health is the most important thing at the moment.
Local authorities cancelled all public events until April, 19. For that, our museum will stay closed meanwhile.
Ticket refunding takes place the following way:

• Tickets bought in our webshop: All customers were informed about refunding by email
  Please reply until 19-April-2020!
  
• Tickets bought at travel agencies: Please contact your dealer/agency for refunding
• Tickets bought at Dresden Transport Museum: Please contact the Transport Museum for refunding

We hope to see you healthy again for the 13th Dresden Steam Engine Festival, held between 09th and 11th of April 2021.

We want to thank everybody, who has spent a part or the whole ticket price as a donation, wich helps us through the difficult period of time!

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Partners of the 12th Steam Engine Festival

		DB Regio Dresden				ITL Eisenbahngesellschaft Dresden
Lausitzer Dampflok Club e.V.				Modellbahnshop Sebnitz
		S-Bahn Dresden				Augustustours (Travel Agency Augustustours)
Verkehrsmuseum Dresden (Dresden Transport Museum)				Flügelradtouristik e.V.
		Reisebüro Maertens (Travel agency Maertens)		Förderverein für das Eisenbahnmuseum Dresden e.V. (Supporting Assiciation for the Dresden Railway Museum)

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