[2] The purpose of the station was to relieve Prague city centre of freight train services.

[1] It was also used for warehousing, although the creation of a food warehouse in the district of Strašnice in 1966 reduced the demand at the station.

[3] The access track with a rail branching is used for a container terminal which is adjacent to the freight station building and is in service up to now.

[6] The three-winged main station building was denoted as a national cultural monument in 2010 by the Ministry of Culture, a move which was quickly challenged by local government and members of the local real estate development industry including the Sekyra Group.

The city plans to transform and develop it into a school, housing, cultural center, offices, and commercial spaces.