Located at an altitude of +130 meters, it is the northernmost and westernmost railway station in South Sumatra province.

At the start of the 1930s, the state-owned railway company Zuid-Sumatra Staatsspoorwegen were constructing a new railway line that connects Muara Enim to Lahat with terminus at Lubuklinggau, which was finished by mid 1933.

[2] Lubuklinggau Station and the line itself was opened on 1 June 1933.

Line 1 is connected to a dead end track which goes to the train crew administration office south of the station's main building.

The railway tracks continued to a Pertamina oil depot north of the station.