Dresden-Plauen station (German: Haltepunkt Dresden-Plauen) is a railway station located in Dresden, Germany. The station is located on the Dresden–Werdau line and operated by DB Station&Service.

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Dresden-Plauen
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Dresden-Plauen railway station in 2006
General information
Location	Altplauen 20, 01187, Dresden, Saxony Germany
Coordinates	51°01′47″N 13°42′11″E
Line(s)	Dresden–Werdau railway
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	1355[1]
DS100 code	DPL[2]
IBNR	08013476
Category	6 [1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	January 1926
Services
Preceding station Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn Following station Freital-Potschappel towards Zwickau Hbf RB 30 Dresden Hbf Terminus Preceding station Dresden S-Bahn Following station Freital-Potschappel towards Freiberg (Sachs) S 3 Dresden Hbf Terminus
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The Haltepunkt Plauen bei Dresden ("Plauen near Dresden halt") was opened on 18 June 1855 together with the Albertsbahn (Albert's Railway) and was located to the left (south-east) of the railway. In 1897, the so-called Alte Bahnhof (old station) Plauen was opened with the station building located near the right-hand side of the current tracks. A few months later, the original building was demolished, when the connection to the Felsenkeller brewery was built there.^[3] A waiting room was erected in its place, which was moved to the Boderitz-Cunnersdorf halt of the Windbergbahn (Windberg Railway, a former mining railway now used as a heritage railway) in 1923 and still exists today (2016). In 1903, after the incorporation of the village of Plauen into Dresden, the station's name was changed to Dresden-Plauen. Since the station was located quite poorly for the population of Dresden-Plauen, which had now grown to 12,000 people, a new station was opened about 800 m further north in January 1926 and the old station was closed.^[4] This halt, opened in 1926, is to be renovated by the middle of 2018.^[5] The entrance building that was built in 1897 (the old station) was renovated in the late 1990s and today houses a glass workshop (2016).^[3]

DB will be carrying out a bridge replacement and station renovation project in 2020–2022. The current bridge is functionally obsolete.^[8] The Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) is considering extending the tram to make a direct connection with the S-Bahn as a part of Stadtbahnprogrammn 2020.^[9]