It is located just a few metres north of the town center of Vienenburg, a district of Goslar near a small river, the Radau.

The route was put into operation on 1 December 1838 and was subsequently extended via Börßum, Schladen and Vienenburg to Bad Harzburg.

Next to the station building and connected to it by a corridor, is the so-called Kaisersaal (imperial hall), where William I, the German Emperor, rested during his stay in Vienenburg on 15 August 1875.

[4] The main building of the station houses a café, the local library, a visitor centre and the rooms of a railway museum (as of 2013).

A transfer-free long-distance connection has run towards Potsdam and Berlin from Fridays to Sundays since 11 December 2005 as the Harz-Berlin-Express.

State bus route 203 runs every two hours from the station forecourt to Halberstadt via Osterwieck and Dardesheim.

These included the construction of two lifts, the raising of the platform edges to 55 centimetres above the rails, the rebuilding of the station lighting, the erection of two weather shelters and the installation of waste containers, clocks and information boxes.

The modernisation cost about €2.7 million and was funded by, among others, Deutsche Bahn, the state government and Regionalverband Großraum Braunschweig (Greater Brunswick Regional Transport Association).