The station is located in Hongtang Village (洪塘村) of Longhai District, about 10 km south of downtown Zhangzhou.

Railway development plans also include the construction of a 45-km-long branch line from Zhangzhou railway station eastward, across most of Longhai District, to terminate at the China Merchants Group industrial area (招商局漳州开发区) on the southwestern shore of Xiamen Harbor, opposite Xiamen Island (24°24′31″N 118°01′037″E / 24.40861°N 118.02694°E / 24.40861; 118.02694).

The branch will be known as the Gangwei Railway (港尾铁路), and will support trains running at speeds up to 120 km/h.

[2] Zhangzhou railway station is served by high-speed (D-series) trains traveling along the coast (east, toward Xiamen, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai, and west, toward Shantou and Shenzhen), as well as inland, toward Longyan.

A few "conventional" passenger trains, traveling from Xiamen to various points in the interior of the country, stop at Zhangzhou as well.