Quedlinburg station was served over the former branch line from Blankenburg via Timmenrode to Quedlinburg along with the branch line from Timmenrode to Thale Bodetal (opened 1907/1908) by passenger services only from April 1908 to June 1969. This line was known as Die Quäke (from quäkende—squawking, a reference to its train whistle). The fact that the track built by the Halberstadt-Blankenburger Eisenbahn (Halberstadt-Blankenburg Railway) was originally not planned can be recognised by the fact that another platform had to be built in Quedlinburg. Platform 1 West was built some distance behind the station building because a bypass track was necessary at the end of the track; a water crane was also installed shortly before the Stresemannstraße level crossing. This is the only evidence for the line that is still visible today. Parts of the line were shut down as they were severely damaged by the excessive loads on freight trains from Rübeland during the closure of the Halberstadt–Blankenburg railway. From 1975, the tracks were dismantled between Thale and Weddersleben; in the Quedlinburg area freight traffic was operated by the wagon factory (RAW) until 1993. The tracks were rebuilt in Quedlinburg from 2003 to 2005. The last remnants of its tracks in the station area disappeared with the rebuilding for the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways in 2005. Individual sidings are currently still found at the Albert-Schweitzer-Straße level crossing.
