To its east it is bordered by an industrial area and Tauberstraße (street), which runs parallel with the Tauber river.

[4] As a result of its function as a railway junction, Lauda and its surroundings were repeatedly bombed in Allied air raids.

On 15 October 1944, a moving express train was shot at, the Tauber bridge suffered minor damage and 6 to 8 locomotives were disabled by gunshots.

30 bombs dropped all missed their targets, but a subsequent attack with on-board weapons damaged the water towers, engine shed, signal boxes and locomotives.

Here a military train with Russian prisoners of war was hit hard by cluster bombs and strafing.

The track and signaling systems at the southern end of the station were severely damaged and more locomotives were made unusable.

The manager of the railway depot ordered the demolition of all local facilities before he disappeared, but his deputy prevented the implementation of the plan.

Since the Odenwald Railway was an important supply route for the U.S. occupation forces, U.S. troops occupied the station immediately.

In the peak years, there were ten express services daily, mainly of the long routes between Berlin and Stuttgart and between the Palatinate and Franconia.

Up until the Second World War, changing destinations were added, some with through coaches, such as Metz, Leipzig, Paris, Carlsbad (now Karlovy Vary), Dresden, Breslau (now Wrocław), Milan and Naples.

Regional-Express services also operate between Aschaffenburg and Crailsheim serving the station every two hours, this train has been branded as the Main-Tauber Express.

and its successor organisations in the days of steam traction based locomotive operations on the Odenwald Railway and its branch lines in the northeast of Baden in Lauda.

established a locomotive depot in Lauda and built this up to the autumn of 1868 to form a complete operations workshop (Bahnbetriebswerk), which as a result of its elaborate infrastructure was compared to the entrance building.