 When it opened it had a total track length of 300 kilometres and there were six signal boxes, 825 sets of points, 100 home, 115 distant and 688 shunting signals.As a two-sided shunting facility, Maschen has two train formation yards.The north-south system has a set of 48 departure sidings and a set of 16 reception sidings; the south-north system consists of a set of 64 departure sidings and a set of 17 reception sidings.