The station is located at line-kilometre 49.8 of the Berlin–Halle railway (Anhalterbahn), calculated from the former Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin.

It is centrally located in the town, about 600 metres (2,000 ft) west of the market square.

Original considerations suggested a route via Treuenbrietzen,[4] but the Administrative Director of the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company (Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft), Heinrich Conrad Carl selected a route via Luckenwalde.

The second entrance building had to be built because of the increasing number of passengers and to handle the dispatch of the products of Luckenwalde's industry.

A freight yard with loading tracks and a small-consignment goods shed were also built.

The works were not finished due to the First World War, although tracks were laid on a new embankment in the town of Luckenwalde.

After the end of the First World War, the plans for a further upgrade of the line were revived, but this project was not pursued further after 1922.

The narrow-gauge station of the 750 mm gauge railway was put into operation on 20 December 1900.

Large display boards, which gave information about the arrival of the trains, were in the waiting rooms and the lobby.

There were service rooms for the railway staff on the upper floor of the two-storey building.

[7] To the left of the main entrance of the building was the passenger tunnel to the third, uncompleted platform.

Luckenwalde station is located in the fare area of the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg and in the 2016 timetable it was served every hour by services operated by DB Regio Nordost and individual services of the Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn.