The town is located on the north side of the river and is connected to the station by a ferry and a road bridge.

Bad Schandau station is now the only long-distance stop in the touristic area and national park of Saxon Switzerland.

[3] Bad Schandau received its rail connection with the opening of the Königstein–Krippen section of the Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway (then known as the Saxon-Bohemian Railway—Sächsisch-Böhmische Staatseisenbahn) on 9 June 1850.

This agreement between the Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD) and Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) provided that the handover of all cross-border trains would take place in Bad Schandau and so the station became a border station handling frontier and customs formalities for cross-border freight and passenger traffic.

[7][8][9] Even after the fall of the wall, Bad Schandau station initially retained its significance for freight traffic.

Since then, there has been a tourist information centre,[10] a bicycle rental service and an organic market as well as access to the platforms for the disabled.

The station is served by several train services operated by Deutsche Bahn (including Dresden S-Bahn line S1).

The station is also served by EuroCity services from Hamburg and Berlin to Prague, Bratislava and Budapest as well as by certain InterCity and Nighttrains (EuroNight and CityNightLine).