Construction Work to Close the Dresden Central Station on 24 February, Affecting Also the EC Trains from the Czech Republic

From 04:00 hours on Saturday, 24 February, to 04:00 hours on Sunday, 25 February 2024, DB InfraGO as the German railway infrastructure manager, will be repairing the catenary line system at the Dresden Hbf railway station and on the adjacent railway line sections. That is why the railway station will be completely impassable for trains at that time. České dráhy would like to draw passengers’ attention to a special outage timetable which will be valid on Saturday 24 February for all daily EC trains on the Prague – Dresden – Berlin – Hamburg / Kiel / Flensburg / Leipzig route. These services will be replaced during the outage by bus services in the Ústí nad Labem hl.n. – Dresden-Neustadt section and back. The shutdown will also affect the Prague – Leipzig – Zurich and Graz – Vienna – Prague – Berlin night train services. From the morning of Sunday 25 February, long-distance trains between the Czech Republic and Germany will be available again on their entire routes, but the configuration of some train sets may be subject to temporary modifications.

The EC Berliner / Hungaria trains from Prague to Berlin, Hamburg, Kiel and Flensburg will run on Saturday 24 February to the Děčín hl.n. railway station. Passengers who are going further to Germany will use an alternative bus service, which will be provided in the Ústí n. L. hl.n. – Dresden-Neustadt section. Passengers travelling from the Dresden-Neustadt railway station to their final destinations in Germany will use alternative IC trains or other regular Deutsche Bahn trains. The substitution buses will not serve the Děčín hl.n., Bad Schandau and Dresden Hbf railway stations. The transport in the opposite direction will be organised in a similar way.

The EC 458 and EC 459 Canopus (Prague – Dresden – Leipzig and back) trains will run without any limitation in the Praha hl.n. – Děčín hl.n. railway line section and back, nevertheless they will be replaced by buses in the Ústí nad Labem hl.n. – Dresden-Neustadt railway line section and back, and passengers can use the substitute IC 2508 and 2509 trains in the Dresden-Neustadt – Leipzig Hbf railway line section. As far as the night of 23/24 February is concerned, direct carriages from Prague to Zurich will run only on the Leipzig Hbf – Zurich HB railway line section, whilst on the following night 24/25 February, the direct carriages from Zurich are to run to the Leipzig Hbf railway station only.

The nightjet 456 and 457 (Graz – Vienna – Prague – Berlin and back) trains will be replaced by buses in the Děčín hl.n. – Dresden-Neustadt railway line section and back. In the Dresden-Neustadt – Berlin Hbf railway line section and back, passengers will use the replacement trains (IC 2506 and 2507) consisting of seating carriages only.

Passengers travelling from the Děčín hl.n. railway station to the Dresden-Neustadt railway station and to further destinations can use national trains in the Děčín hl.n. – Ústí nad Labem hl.n. railway line section without paying the extra fare for additional kilometres travelled due to the detour. The same measure will apply in the opposite direction as well.

The details concerning the operation of long-distance EC trains during Saturday’s construction work in Dresden are available from the outage timetable on this web site. The work on the railway infrastructure will also affect the operation of regional trains in Dresden and its surroundings, and therefore passengers are advised to check the web sites of Deutsche Bahn or of the Transport Grouping of the Upper Elbe (Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe / VVO) for information on the operation of these train lines.

We would like to apologise to passengers for any complications caused by the outages at the Dresden railway junction!