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

Enjoy a short movie about our festival:

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

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(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
Reduced tickets for admission, only for disabled people and 15 to 17 years old children: 12,- Euro
Nightly photo session on Friday: 25,- Euro per person
Nightly photo session on Saturday: 25,- Euro per person
Live music event "Dampf & Dixie" on Saturday: 15,- Euro per person
Special excursion trains: 49,- Euro per person and train

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Planned locomotives

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

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Special Steam Trains

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.

Changes may occur at short notice due to the age of our historic trains.

All our trains carry a restaurant car, where snacks or drinks can be bought.

Friday, April 12th 2024: fan ride departing from Dresden in direction of Kamenz, planned coaches "Donnerbüchsen", planned locomotive 58 311
Saturday morning, April 13th 2024: full steam to Dührrröhrsdorf, planned coaches "Donnerbüchsen", planned locomotive 77 250
Saturday afternoon, April 13th 2024: with type G12 through the Müglitz valley to Altenberg, planned coaches "Donnerbüchsen", planned locomotive 58 311
Sunday morning, April 14th 2024: parallel ride on Tharandt Ramp, planned coaches: fast train choaches with large windows, planned locomotive for passenger train 23 1097 and for goods train 52 8079
Sunday afternoon, April 14th 2024: with Jule through the Lausitz, planned coaches: fast train choaches with large windows, route Dresden - Ebersbach - Löbau - Dresden, planned locomotive 23 1097

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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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