The line crossed state road 206 (Merseburger Straße) at the western end of the station.

[5] Plans dating from 1845 provided for the construction of the entrance building to the south near the Saale.

Furthermore, there was already a carriage shed, a roundhouse, a turntable, a water supply point and a toilet.

[4] Renovation of the underpass and the construction of a new platform on tracks 1 and 2 began in the 2010s, which was completed in 2013 at a cost of about €755,000.

[11] The facade was restored for Sachsen-Anhalt-Tag ("Saxony-Anhalt Day", a festival formerly held annually, now every two years, in different Saxon-Anhalt towns) in 2010.

[12] The municipality of Weißenfels continues to campaign for funding from the Revita program of the state of Saxony-Anhalt for an extensive refurbishment of the building.

[13] Before the commissioning of the electronic interlocking the following signal boxes had been built:[14] When the signal boxes were decommissioned on 12 December 1999, a Siemens electronic interlocking went into operation on the same day, which is remotely controlled by an operations centre in Leipzig.

According to an article in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung published in 2013, more than 3000 passengers use the station daily.

[15] Weißenfels is served by the IC 61, which runs every two hours between Karlsruhe and Leipzig.