The station was opened in 1871 at a location that was then on the northern edge of the town of Oebisfelde during the construction of the Berlin–Lehrte railway, which connected
Berlin with
Hanover. The line was first used for freight transport on 1 November 1871 and it was opened for passenger transport a month later. Subsequently Oebisfelde was connected by railway lines to several other places. In 1874, the
Magdeburg-Neuhaldensleben railway was extended to Oebisfelde. The
line to Salzwedel was opened in 1889. The
Helmstedt–Oebisfelde railway went into operation six years later. At the beginning of the 20th century lines were opened to
Schandelah east of
Brunswick (1902) and
Wittingen (1909), the latter as a standard-gauge
Kleinbahn with its own station directly north of Oebisfelde station. After 1880, Oebisfelde became the location of a railway workshop, which developed into a locomotive depot (
Bahnbetriebswerk). The number of trains that stopped at Oebisfelde station rose continuously: 15 trains stopped each day in 1888; this rose to 53 trains in 1912. Railway connections to
West Germany resumed on 8 December 1945. In 1975, four pairs of interzone trains ran via Oebisfelde, in the summer five. In addition, there were nine pairs of trains in passenger trains to/from
Stendal, ten pairs of trains to/from
Haldensleben and six to seven pairs of trains to/from
Salzwedel. Steam trains operated until 1988. Immediately west of the station there was a collision between an express train and a
tank car on 27 July 1991. There were three deaths; it took several years to clear the site. In the timetable for 1991/92, Oebisfelde was still served by numerous long-distance trains. Among them were
Durchgangszug (express trains) from Cologne to
Görlitz and
Dresden as well as trains from
Schiphol to
Berlin. Only a pair of night trains running between Cologne and
Moscow went through the station without stopping. The
InterRegio service between Cologne and Leipzig also ran until the mid-1990s through Oebisfelde. The Oebisfelde depot lost its independence to 16 February 1995 and became part of the Stendal traction depot. During the construction of the
Hanover–Berlin high-speed railway, Oebisfelde station was completely redesigned. This meant, among other things, the end of long-distance passenger operations at the station. By 1998, the number of usable passenger platforms had declined to two island platforms. The platform canopies on platform 1 were removed. North and south of the four tracks serving the platforms, there were three more tracks, which are mostly used by freight trains. The double-track, electrified high-speed line was laid through the former northern part of the station and the only track connection to it is about 300 metres west of the station. Since then, only the third non-electrified track of the Berlin–Lehrte railway has run through the station. For the construction of high-speed railway, the northern exit of the line to Salzwedel had to be moved. For this purpose, approximately four kilometres of new railway line were built, but this line was closed in 2002. The supervisory staff was withdrawn in 1997. The station restaurant and the ticket office were closed at the turn of the millennium. ==Train services==