The station had three different names in its history, as follows: On 1 November 1865, Adorf received a railway connection with the opening of the line from Herlasgrün via Oelsnitz and Adorf to Eger (now Cheb) by the Voigtland State Railway (Voigtländische Staatseisenbahn).

Due to the position of the turntable at the end of the railway line from Aue, there were occasional accidents; a locomotive even ran through the gable wall of the entrance building on 6 January 1900.

Extensive reconstruction of the station began as part of the double-tracking of the Adorf–Siebenbrunn section, since the Siebenbrunn–Markneukirchen railway was planned to run from there.

The station survived the Second World War largely undamaged, only suffering from low-flying strafing, which caused little damage.

In 1990, the station consisted of 54 sets of points, two simple crossovers and a crossing loop.

[6] After the nationalisation of the CAAE, there were plans for the construction of a Heizhaus at Adorf station, but these were rejected for cost reasons.

Because of the cramped conditions, it had to be long and narrow, with space for only a total of six locomotives on its two tracks; a water crane, a workshop and a coal shed were also built.

The works, which were finished in June 1909, included a fifteen-stall half roundhouse with a 20-m turntable and an administrative building.

[8] Currently, the Vogtländische Eisenbahnverein Adorf uses the facilities and some museum vehicles (including 86 607 and an ELNA 1) are based there.

In addition, there were individual locomotives of classes 53, 54.15–17, 91 and 56.34–35, but they were retired soon after the end of the war or handed over to other departments.

[9] With the advent of uranium mining, Adorf once again received class 58.4 locomotives, which from then on also hauled express trains—including the Karlex—as well as heavy freight trains.