Today, regional trains run to Leipzig, Halle (Saale), Hoyerswerda and Cottbus.

Since the commissioning of the Leipzig City Tunnel, trains of the Mitteldeutschland S-Bahn stop in Eilenburg.

The town of Eilenburg was in an area that was peripheral to Prussia, having been ceded to it by the Kingdom of Saxony at the Congress of Vienna.

[4] The station building was built in 1871, which included service areas, ticket counters, baggage handling, housing for employees and four waiting rooms.

[4] The line from Falkenberg (Elster) via Eilenburg to Halle (Saale) was opened a year later, in April 1872.

[5] The branch to the Saxon university and trade fair city of Leipzig was opened in November 1874.

[5] About 1914, the idea had also developed of building a line from Eilenburg to Bitterfeld with its emerging industrial areas.

On that day at about 12:45 a freight train loaded with Nebelwerfer mortar projectiles caught fire, as the wood wool that was used to complete the charge had ignited.

To minimize the damage from an explosion, the affected wagon was detached and pushed out from the station to the west towards Wedelwitz.

[6] Eilenburg station was in the territory of the Reichsbahndirektion (railway division) of Halle (Saale), which was dissolved in 1994.

[6] In 1995, an InterRegio service running from Lübeck via Schwerin, Magdeburg and Leipzig to Cottbus replaced the express trains.

[5] 20 years later, the state of Saxony ended scheduled passenger traffic on the route to Wittenberg between Eilenburg station and Bad Düben.

[7] The infrastructure of the passenger station includes the red brick entrance building, which has a tower on its west side.

In Eilenburg, close to the south end of the passenger station, there are about ten tracks of a freight yard with a hump.

There are also sidings for the use of freight cars and locomotives to the east of the entrance building and the Railion social facility.

After the electrification of the Halle (Saale)–Eilenburg line in the late 1980s, electric locomotives of classes 211, 242, 243 and 250 were also put into service.

[10][11] From the opening of the station until at least the end of the Second World War, it handled through traffic from Halle to Cottbus, unlike today.

In addition, five passenger trains ran from Halle to Falkenberg (Elster), some continuing to Cottbus.

In 1970, through trains mainly ran from Leipzig to Cottbus, so that now travellers to and from Halle had to be change in Eilenburg.

Three express and three semi-fast trains ran each day in each direction between Leipzig and Cottbus, which invariably stopped in Eilenburg.

For easy interchange between the two lines, another bus platform was created in front of the station building.