It is currently operated by Deutsche Bahn, which classifies it as a category 5 station.

[1] Formerly, the station was connected to Schleswig Altstadt station by a three kilometre-long line of the Schleswig District Railway, which connected to lines to Satrup, Kappeln via Süderbrarup and to Friedrichstadt.

In long-distance traffic, since 9 December 2007, daily Intercity-Express trains on the Aarhus–Hamburg–Berlin route have stopped in Schleswig, but this service ended in December 2015 and was replaced by DSB (railway company) EuroCity trains, which do not stop in Schleswig.

[3] DB Regio Nord operates hourly Regional-Express services between Hamburg and Flensburg an norbahn operates services between Husum and Kiel.

The station has three tracks, two of which have a platform that is used for passenger operations.