Schwandorf station is the second most important regional transport hub in the Upper Palatinate province of Bavaria after Regensburg Hauptbahnhof, and one of the two working railway stations in the town of Schwandorf.

The station was opened on 12 December 1859 by the Bavarian Eastern Railway Company, when the Nuremberg–Schwandorf–Regensburg route was taken into service.

These lines still exist, although Schwandorf can no longer be called a "railwayman's town" as used to be the case.

In the station building, there is a ticket machine, a newsagent, a bakery, and a shop for travellers with a bistro.

South of Schwandorf in the suburb of Klardorf there is another station at which no passenger trains have stopped since 2 June 1985.