The station is located on an island between two arms of the estuary of the Warnow, the old and the new channel, a few metres away from the Baltic Sea.

Tracks 1 to 4 are reached directly from the station forecourt, while a pedestrian tunnel leads to platform 6 and the berthings.

The building was largely demolished during the electrification of the line in the early 1980s, with only the western part of the station house having been preserved.

The railway was opened on 26 June 1886 along with the two ports of Warnemünde and Gedser, replacing the mail steamer connection between Rostock and Nykøbing Falster.

Immediately adjacent to it and connected by a covered walkway was the departure point for the steamer to Gedser, which was a 450-metre-long pool.

That is why the tracks were built directly through the central part of the entrance building, creating a kind of tunnel.

The ferry, which irrespective of political difficulties, had continued even in times of war, was closed on 1 May 1945 and was restored mainly at the instigation of the Danish on 10 May 1947.

Warnow Werft station was built next to it on the site of the freight yard for the transport of workers in 1949.

After double track had been restored on the section from Rostock Hauptbahnhof to Bramow, the line was fully redoubled.

Between Marienehe and Warnemünde Werft, the line was at the same time moved further west to be closer to residential areas.

An additional island platform was installed at Warnemünde Werft station, requiring one of the tracks in the freight yard to be dismantled.

However, it turned out that the connection from the ferry terminal to the road network was unsuitable for the increased traffic.

A direct tourist train linking Berlin and Warnemünde runs all year round on weekends.

The outer platform 6 has been used since the early 2000s mostly for special trains to cruise ships and at the nightly shutdown of S-Bahn services.

The pedestrian tunnel from the ferry, the cruise terminal and platform 6 is planned to be demolished in the future as part of the reconstruction of the station.

In the freight yard, the disused railway siding to the shipyard was put back into operation at the end of 2007.

South of the station a road bridge has been built that is used by traffic running to the cruise terminal and the Warnemünde – Hohe Düne ferry.

[8] The swing bridge over the old channel that connects the station and central Warnemünde is also a listed building.