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.
Find here:
- General Information
- Why won't the cancelled 12th Dresden Steam Engine Festival simply take place in 2021?
- Partners to the festival
(Planungsstand 19.04.2020)
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.
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.
Partners to the 13th Dresden Steam Engine Festival
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DB Regio Dresden |
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S-Bahn Dresden |
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(Travel agency Augustustours) |
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(Dresden Transport Museum) |
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Flügelradtouristik e.V. |
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