As the station was originally only used for freight, it was used for connections to the coal mines in neighbouring Belgium, the northern part of the Aachen district and the quarries in Stolberg.

The railway tracks were relaid about 100 metres closer to the town in 1892 to remove rail traffic from the level crossing on an increasingly important arterial road, today's Trierer Straße.

As a result, the handling of steel, coke and limestone was abandoned and the station became less important for the transfer of freight.

In 2004, the freight shed were finally demolished and the now disused railway land was mostly levelled for the construction of the Aachen Arkaden shopping centre.

Another signal box called Rr was demolished in preparation for the construction of the Aachen Arkaden shopping centre in 2004.

In the period from January 2007[12] until the opening on 9 October 2008 a large part of the former site of the former freight yard was demolished and replaced by the Aachen Arkaden, an office complex and shopping centre with 16,000 m2 (170,000 sq ft) of retail space.