Work on the hall roof at Dresden Central Station is progressing

Progress is being made on the construction site at Dresden Central Station. Work on the hall roof should be completed by late fall, the railroad announced. In the third and final phase, the construction site switched from the south-eastern to the south-western side at the beginning of July. Wiener Platz is now closed along the station building and there is no train service on platforms 11 and 12 for the time being.

Replacement of the hall roof began in 2022, with the old roof covering an area of around 33,000 square meters being removed in three stages and replaced with a new membrane. The costs of 44 million euros are being borne by the federal government, Saxony and the railroad.

This year, 11,500 square meters of membrane will be replaced and eight of the 18 so-called skylights will be installed, on which snow drifts and broken ice can be deposited without clogging the funnels underneath for the drainage of melt and rainwater. A 69-tonne, 42-metre-high mobile crane and a 224-tonne, 119-metre-high crawler crane will be used.

The work will be fully completed by spring 2025. The final steps, such as removing the safety nets and working platforms and installing the snow guard, will then be completed next year.