Könnern station is located at line kilometre 28.5 of the Halle–Vienenburg railway, measured from Halle.

The first train arrived at Könnern station at 5:15 in the morning in presence of many citizens.

The local industrial and agricultural sectors also made used of the railway for freight transport.

The outgoing freight included stones, cement, mechanical engineering products and steam boilers.

Due to the long periods with closed barriers at the level crossing, there were traffic obstructions on Köthener Straße.

The railway division (Königliche Eisenbahn-Direktion) in Magdeburg proposed building an underpass for this reason.

Among other things, it was planned to build a turntable with a diameter of 16 metres and a discharge pit.

Almost all freight operations were carried out on the loading road, which was extended around 1895, and the head and side ramps in front of the goods shed.

A siding branched off to run down the middle of the street, which was served by locomotives of the state railway.

After the Second World War, the second track on the line between Halle and Aschersleben was dismantled for reparations to the Soviet Union.

The single track had no major impact on shunting operations in Könnern, as the volume of goods was already declining.

Locomotives from Bernburg were used; these hauled a local goods train to Könnern twice a day.