Bautzen railway station

Geschichte

Bautzen is a railway station in the town of Bautzen, Saxony, Germany. The station lies on the Görlitz–Dresden railway and Bautzen–Bad Schandau railway, which has now closed. The station is also on the former Bautzen–Hoyerswerda railway.Bahnbetriebswerk BautzenThe former engine shed or Bahnbetriebswerk of Bautzen ("Bw Bautzen") was located at Bautzen railway station towards the railway exit to Löbau/Görlitz and next to the industrial side of the old German Coach Works (Waggonbau Bautzen), today's Bombardier Transportation.Since the opening of the Görlitz–Dresden railway in 1846, it belonged to the Saxon-Silesian Railway Company, which was nationalized in 1851. In 1922, the Görlitz–Dresden railway was nationalized to the Reichsbahndirektion Dresden. Following the restructuring of the railways after the Second World War, Bautzen was incorporated into Reichsbahndirektion Cottbus.In 1950, with sheds at both Bahnbetriebswerk Löbau and Bahnbetriebswerk Zittau, trains were still leaving here hauled by locomotives of many different classes, as in Saxon state railway times, which were 35 to 45 years old.Until May 14, 1988, working engines of Class 52 were still stabled here for scheduled services and for use as heating engines. Many of these engines are still used to this day≈ פףצ