The PZB 90 intermittent cab signalling system is used on the freight rail bypass.

In the northeast it was connected via a branch line from the Rhine Valley Railway running between the old Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof and the old Durlach station.

A container terminal was formerly located between the marshalling yard and the passenger line between Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof and Durlach and on the other side of Wolfartsweierer Straße there was a loading facility with two tracks.

The area of the former Karlsruhe locomotive workshop and the closed parts of the freight yard have been used to extend the Südstadt district and for a new neighbourhood park, the Ostauepark.

In contrast, the links to the freight bypass from the lines from Bruchsal (VzG 4217) and Pforzheim (VzG 4211) only directly connect with the tracks running from Pforzheim and Bruchsal, requiring trains running in the opposite direction to cross tracks at-grade.