This was increased to 31 tracks after the extension of the subordinate group at signal box D. The entry group at the western end of the marshalling yard is located on the Leipzig Freight Ring with double-track connections to the south and the north.

14 mechanical signal boxes were built for the operation of the freight yard, mainly of the Bruchsal G design.

Signal box 4 was destroyed in an air raid during the Second World War and reconstructed in 1947 in a different style with yellow clinker brickwork and a lever frame of the Jüdel design from old spare parts.

In the 1960s, an electro-mechanical lever frame of a 1907 design was installed in the previously mechanical signal box A and, in addition, the approach track received three beam retarders.

In addition, a third track runs directly from the freight yard parallel to the line to Dresden as far as Borsdorf.

At the same time, signal box 4, which controlled these routes, was closed and control of the remaining set of points at the transition to single-track operations towards Liebertwolkwitz was taken over by Leipzig Ost (east) electronic signalling centre.

In 2012, the previously mechanical part of signal box 1 was replaced by track display technology of the GS II DR class, using Siemens axle counters, in preparation for S-Bahn operations on the former Leipzig-Engelsdorf–Leipzig-Connewitz railway.

Since then bi-directional operations have been possible between Stötteritz and Engelsdorf, as well as on railway tracks 10 and 11 between the western and eastern humps, which are equipped with automatic block signaling.

After being sold by Deutsche Bahn in 2001, it became the main works of the RSM Group of Herr Hermann Weise.