Backbone of goods traffic
- Around 2,000 km of DB tracks
- 1,115 km of railway tracks which are not state-owned, of which approximately 800 km are exclusively used for goods traffic and 226 km are publicly accessible
- Railway yards/train assembly yards
- Magdeburg-Rothensee
- Halle (Saale)
- Großkorbetha
- more than 90 goods traffic points (extensive coverage)
Passenger transport
- Stendal (Frankfurt–Berlin line), Wittenberg and Naumburg (Munich–Berlin line) are served by an ICE passenger transport service provided by the Deutschen Bahn every two hours,
- Magdeburg and Halle are served by individual trains (Magdeburg–Leipzig line).
