The trains of the S-Bahn Dresden run annually. It consists of the following lines:
Line S 1 }} lighting. The carriages are the first of their kind in the world to implement all lighting with LEDs. Line S 1 is the oldest and most important S-Bahn line in and around Dresden. It connects all the important places in the upper Elbe region with the state capital of Dresden. Commuter traffic and travel for recreation and tourism are still significant. A few isolated places and hiking areas in
Saxon Switzerland can be reached better by the S-Bahn than by bus or car. From
Schöna, it runs along the Elbe on the
Elbe Valley Railway through the
Elbe Sandstone Mountains, through
Bad Schandau and past
Königstein Fortress to
Pirna. There it leaves the immediate bank of the Elbe and runs through
Heidenau and southeastern Dresden almost straight to Dresden Hauptbahnhof. It follows a curve through the inner city, crosses the Elbe river and runs after a sharp curve beyond Dresden-Neustadt station next to the
Leipzig–Dresden railway. It passes through
Radebeul and
Coswig, where it branches towards Meißen over the
Borsdorf–Coswig railway. The sets of the S 1 consist basically of four double-decked carriages. For larger events and between Easter and Pentecost the trains run with five double-deck carriages. Between Dresden and Pirna were the upgrading of the existing tracks for S-Bahn operations at up to (the first stage of the construction of the Dresden S-Bahn; these tracks are now classified as part of the
Pirna–Coswig railway) as well as the construction of two new long-distance railway tracks (for ) were completed by 12 December 2004. On 16 July 2007, the first 16 newly procured double-deck carriages were handed over for the S 1. The trains are equipped with air conditioning, an electronic
passenger information system, interior lighting by means of
light emitting diodes n as well as sockets at the seats in 1st class. The control cars have 82 seats, the middle cars each have 126 seats. By 9 December 2007, the whole S 1 was equipped with new carriages. From the 2010/2011 timetable change on 12 December 2010, the S 1 services were drawn by locomotives of the
class 145. This should result in a four-minute reduction in travel time over the whole route. Since the locomotives do not have sufficient
door control for the new double-deck carriages, the trains had attendants the train at each platform. Since the end of 2011,
Siemens ES64U2 (class 182) locomotives have replaced the class 145 locomotives. The class 182 locomotives were taken over by DB Regio from
DB Schenker and equipped with a local transport package (including a train destination display and side-selective door control). With a change of 2015/2016 timetable on 13 December 2015, another change was made to
class 146.0 locomotives.
Line S 2 }} The
Flughafen-S-Bahn ("Airport S-Bahn") connects Pirna, Heidenau and Dresden with
Dresden Airport and the microelectronics companies located in the north of the city. Between Dresden-Neustadt and Pirna/Heidenau (on working days) or Dresden Hbf (on weekends and holidays) S 2 services run along the same route as the S 1 services, so that there are services at intervals alternating between 10 and 20 minutes on this section. The sets of the S 2 are made of two double-deck carriages which, unlike the ones on the S 1 and S 3 services, are equipped with an emergency brake bypass to avoid being stopped in the tunnel to the
airport station. A railway line between Dresden-Klotzsche and the airport was rebuilt and extended to connect to the airport. Already before the opening of the S 2 on 22 May 1998 a
Regionalbahn service operated to Dresden Grenzstraße and served to connect with
EADS EFW and
ZMDI. The S 2 branches off the
Görlitz–Dresden railway just north of
Klotzsche station. Trains running towards the airport pass over the non-electrified line towards Görlitz. The
Dresden-Klotzsche–Dresden Airport railway runs as a single track and ends at a double-track underground station under the terminal of Dresden Airport. The construction of the new and upgraded line began In the middle of 1998. Around 810,000 passengers were counted on the line by the end of 2001. The electrification of the sections between Dresden-Neustadt and the airport began at the beginning of March 2002. In 2002, 683,000 travelers were counted on the line. Inside Dresden, the next stop on the S 3 after the Hauptbahnhof is
Dresden-Plauen station. In Freital the S-Bahn line serves large parts of the populated areas. The town of Freital was founded in 1921 from the three villages of Potschappel, Deuben and Döhlen; in 1964 Hainsberg was also incorporated. Next to the Freital-Deuben station, there is a bus station with connections to ten regional and six local bus routes. The railway line runs along the traffic axis of the town, which is also serves as the main axis of Freital's bus routes. Typically, sets of two double-deck carriages are used. Until the timetable change in May 1995, operated S 3 as S 5. Between 9 December 2007 and 11 December 2010, it operated as a supplementary line to S 3, line S 30 and since the timetable change on 12 December 2010, the entire line between Dresden Hbf and
Freiberg has operated as S 3. It normally begins and ends in Tharandt, but it serves the stations of Edle Krone,
Klingenberg-Colmnitz, Niederbobritzsch, Muldenhütten and
Freiberg (Sachs) running to Freiberg from Monday to Friday in the morning peak and from Freiberg in the afternoon peak. It is the only Dresden S-Bahn line that runs outside the area of the Upper Elbe Transport Association. Between Niederbobritzsch and Freiberg the fares of the
Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen (Mid-Saxony transport association) apply. Since beginning of 2012, the service has been hauled by a class 145 locomotive. As of the end of October, a circuit was operated by a
Bombardier Talent 2 set on staff training and since 1 January 2013 all circuits have been scheduled to be hauled by class 143.
Line S 8 }} The S8 line is a diesel-powered S-Bahn line in the north of Dresden. It emerged on December 12, 2021, from the former RB34, which was extensively renovated and expanded until then.
Other railway lines in the area of the S-Bahn Regional-Express Various
Regional-Express lines run from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to
Chemnitz (via Freital, Tharandt),
Cottbus and
Hoyerswerda (via Cossebaude, Coswig and
Ruhland) and
Elsterwerda, with some stopping at Dresden stations (
Dresden-Friedrichstadt, Dresden-Cotta, Cossebaude among others) on the
Berlin-Dresden railway, which is not included in the Dresden S-Bahn network. The
Trilex Express runs from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to
Görlitz or
Zittau (via
Klotzsche,
Radeberg). When there are good conditions for winter sports, two additional trains run through the
Eastern Ore Mountains (
Osterzgebirge) to
Altenberg. In addition, a Regional-Express runs from Dresden Hauptbahnhof via Heidenau and Pirna to
Děčín in the Czech Republic.
Regionalbahn services Trilex Regionalbahn services towards Görlitz and Zittau have formed the local services corresponding with the Trilex-Express services between Dresden and
Bischofswerda since the timetable change in December 2008 (then still operated by
DB Regio Südost). These operate at approximately half-hour intervals and provide an S-Bahn-like service on these diesel-powered lines. Two other services are operated into
Upper Lusatia (
Oberlausitz) by the
Städtebahn Sachsen and connect Dresden with
Kamenz and
Königsbrück hourly. Another service runs from Heidenau (connecting to S-Bahn lines S 1 and S 2) through the
Müglitz valley to
Altenberg. The Heidenau–Altenberg and the Pirna–Neustadt (Sachs)–Sebnitz–Bad Schandau services are also operated by Städtebahn Sachsen. Due to the re-commissioning of the
Rumburk–Sebnitz railway between
Dolni Poustevna and
Sebnitz, which had been interrupted since 1945, a passenger service operated by the
Czech Railways with Deutsche Bahn's
Desiro railcars and classified by Deutsche Bahn as
U 28 – Nationalparkbahn (“National Park Railway”) runs from
Rumburk (Czech Republic) via Sebnitz and
Bad Schandau to Děčín (Czech Republic). Since then, Städtebahn Sachsen has operated the Sebnitz–Bad Schandau and return services only once a day.
Narrow-gauge railways Two narrow-gauge railways connect the S-Bahn network to two nearby
750 mm gauge railways. In
Radebeul Ost (connection to S 1), it is possible to change to the
Radebeul–Radeburg railway (
Lößnitzgrundbahn). In
Freital-Hainsberg (connection to S 3) there is interchange with the
Weisseritz Valley Railway (
Weisseritztalbahn), which was put out of operation by the 2002 flood, although the Freital-Hainsberg–
Dippoldiswalde section was reopened on 13 December 2008. == Network extensions ==