A siding runs to the west from the passenger station to the Roßlau shipyard (Roßlauer Schiffswerft).

Immediately south of Roßlau station is the railway bridge over the Elbe.

In 1841, the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company (Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) had built its first station building in Roßlau for the construction of its main line from Berlin via Wittenberg and Dessau to Köthen.

[5] The present main building of the station was built in 1866 and its predecessor to its north was demolished in the following year.

[6] To enable the operation of through passenger service between Magdeburg/Zerbst and Coswig/Wittenberg, a second station was built in the western tip of the "railway Island"—Roßlau Neue (new) station—and opened on 15 May 1876.

[7] From 2018 to 2022, a comprehensive renovation was carried out, including the thorough refurbishment of the track and overhead line equipment of the Roßlau/Dessau railway hub.

[8] The Roßlau (Elbe) station is linked to the northeast to the federal capital of Berlin, to the northwest to the state capital of Magdeburg, to the east to Lutherstadt Wittenberg and to the south via Dessau to Halle and Leipzig.