Schöna () is a station
/ref> located on the grounds of Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna municipality,

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

, Germany. It is the German station which is closest to, but not on, the border between Germany and the Czech Republic on the

Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway The Děčín–Dresden railway, also called the Elbe Valley Railway (German: ''Elbtalbahn'') is an electrified main line (railway), main line in Saxony and the Czech Republic. Formerly called the Saxon-Bohemian State Railway (''Sächsisch-Böhmis ...

Bad Schandau Bad Schandau (; , ) is a spa town in Germany, in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district of Saxony. It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, at the mouth of the valley of the Kirnitzsch and in the ar ...

and

Děčín hlavní nádraží Děčín main station () is a railway station in the city of Děčín, in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. The station opened in 1850 and is located on the Děčín–Benešov nad Ploučnicí–Rumburk railway, Praha–Ústí ...

were border stations. There are a couple of sidings south of the station where the S1 can prepare to return towards Dresden. There is hardly any access from the station to village of Schöna, which is outside the

Elbe The Elbe ( ; ; or ''Elv''; Upper Sorbian, Upper and , ) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Republic), then Ge ...

valley in southern direction. The station is more important to reach the village of

Hřensko Hřensko () is a municipality and village in Děčín District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants. With an elevation of above sea level, it is the lowest situated municipality in the country. Located ...

in the Czech Republic, which is just across the river and can be reached by

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Train services

The following services currently call at the station:Timetables for Schöna station
*Regional services ''Dresden – Pirna – Bad Schandau – Děčín – Ústí nad Labem – Litoměřice'' (operates summer weekends) *Local services ''Rumburk – Dolní Poustevna – Sebnitz – Bad Schandau – Děčín'' *

Dresden S-Bahn The Dresden S-Bahn is a network of S-Bahn-type commuter train services in Dresden and the surrounding area. It is commissioned by Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) from DB Regio ''Verkehrsbetrieb Südostsachsen'' and currently consists of three serv ...

''Meißen Triebischtal – Dresden – Heidenau – Pirna – Bad Schandau – Schöna

References

External links

*
Network mapSchöna station at www.verkehrsmittelvergleich.de
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schona railway station Railway stations in Saxony Railway stations in Germany opened in 1851 Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna Dresden S-Bahn stations