The station is located about 2.5 kilometers from the centre of Vaihingen, between the town and the suburb of Kleinglattbach[4] at about 250 metres above sea level.

[5] The station lies on the Mannheim–Stuttgart high-speed line (near the 78 km mark from Mannheim) and on the Württemberg Western Railway.

[6] The (now inactive) seven km long Vaihingen Stadtbahn line passed under the site of the station.

[7] In long-distance operations (2019 timetable) the station is served by several regular InterCity (IC) services.

[6] As the originally planned mixed traffic of passenger and freight trains has not been realised, this facility is little used.

The design of the station building was created by the Karlsruhe office of Schmitt, Kasimir & Partner and was selected as a result of an architectural competition.

[8] In the course of construction about ten kilometres of roads were built or rebuilt, along with cycling and foot paths.

[9] Passenger traffic at the existing station in the centre of Vaihingen was abandoned at the timetable change of 30 September 1990.