From the station, a port track ran to a steam boat landing west of the Long Bridge (Lange Brücke).

From 1958, East Germany relocated internal traffic to the developing Berlin outer ring.

The electric S-Bahn service to Potsdam was disrupted by the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and abandoned a few months later.

It consists of two long building complexes that are linked by a connecting structure topped by a wavy roof.

A proposal for a facade with yellow brickwork was rejected and the dimensions of the building give the impression of office complexes, the scale of which—as the critics predicted—would be at odds with the historical city of Potsdam.

UNESCO considered whether Potsdam should be added to the List of World Heritage in Danger because of the project.

Since December 2014, equipment has been in use at the platform allowing “train dispatch by the driver by cab monitor” (Zugabfertigung durch den Triebfahrzeugführer mittels Führerraum-Monitor, ZAT-FM).

[4] At the May 2006 timetable change the last pair of Intercity-Express (ICE) services to stop at the station was removed.