The station is located in the network area of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar Transport Association, VRN).

It lost this function when traffic between Altenglan and Lauterecken-Grumbach on the Glan Valley Railway was closed at the end of 1995.

Since 2000, it has also been the southern end of a section of the Glan Valley Railway from Altenglan to Staudernheim that is used for a recreational draisine operation.[Note.

During the construction of the Rhine-Nahe Railway (Rhein-Nahe Eisenbahn), a route was proposed by the Bavarian Palatinate, which would have run from near Boos on the Nahe along the Glan via Lauterecken and Altenglan, then along the Kuselbach via Kusel to Sankt Wendel or along the Oster to Neunkirchen.

[6] It was argued that, among other things, the railway construction would improve the rather poor economic and social conditions of the region.

Cuttings were only necessary in the country around Rammelsbach, where the work force encountered a diorite deposit, which was mined in the following years and gave an additional impetus to rail transport.

[8] Even before the opening of the line, the communities in the valley north of Altenglan called for a rail connection, but at first they were unsuccessful.

The project initially failed because Prussia and Bavaria, through which the line would mainly run, had different ideas on how to guarantee interest on it.

[9] However, because the border between Prussia and Bavaria would have hindered the construction, there were at the time plans for a branch line from Altenglan to St Julian, which would have run exclusively through Bavarian Palatinate.

[10] Towards the end of the nineteenth century Bavaria finally abandoned its resistance to the construction of a strategic railway, as Franco-German relations had deteriorated significantly in the meantime.

After an option running to the south-east was eliminated, the plan for a railway from Mainz via Bad Münster along the Glan, sharing the Kusel line between Altenglan and Glan-Münchweiler was adopted.

[17] As early as 1968, Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) first proposed that the Glan Valley Railway be closed, but this failed due to the opposition of the provincial governments of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland.

[24] Students of the Kaiserslautern University of Technology proposed the establishment of a draisine operation on the Altenglan–Staudernhein section of the line to prevent its final closure and the dismantling of its track.

After an examination of the draisine lines in Templin in Brandenburg—at that time the only one in Germany—and near Magnières in Lorraine, detailed planning began, which was implemented in 2000.

This included, among other things, the raising and extension of the two remaining platforms to provide passengers with barrier-free access to the trains.

[27] During the construction of a line to Kusel between 1862 and 1868, the station received a two and a half storey entrance building to the west of the tracks, which were originally equipped with rooms for staff accommodation and administrative offices.

Due to the importance of the station, the execution was carried out exactly as in Glan Munchweiler and Kusel on a relatively large scale.

The main building is connected by a loading ramp to a freight shed, which was built with the slope of its roof facing the track.

[30][31] Trans regio which ran had the contract for the operation of passenger services on the line from Landstuhl to Kusel from 2000 to 2008, had its depot in the south-eastern part of the station area.

It was closed in 1933, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power, as it was considered to be a meeting place of left-wing forces.

[17] In the course of the installation of the Signalisierter Zugleitbetrieb system in 1989, a cube of concrete was built on the platform, which houses the current signalling equipment.

[36] In 1945 and 1946 a pair of express trains ran on the route between Saarbrücken and Koblenz for the last time, but access to it for civilian traffic was restricted.

This was also the last continuous passenger service over the Glan Valley Railway, including the Odernheim–Bad Münster section, which was closed in the early 1960s.

In 1965, two pair of express services were established between Zweibrücken and Mainz, running via the Glan Valley Railway and stopping in Altenglan.

[17][19] Since 2006, the station is served hourly by the Glan Valley Railway (Regionalbahn 67) in the fare system of the VRN.

As at most nearby stations, the carriage of quarried material formed a large part of the freight.

[42] In the early 1920s, a workers colony was established at a quarry at Schneeweiderhof in the municipality of Eßweiler, which had been connected by a ropeway conveyor to Altenglan station in 1919.

There was a loading facility located north-west of the station near the former Rammelsbach tunnel, which was connected by a ropeway conveyor, built around 1900, to the quarry of Hugo Bell on the slopes of the Remigiusberg.

[43] In the 1990s it was served in the evenings by a freight exchange train (Übergabegüterzug) from Kaiserlsuatern-Einsiedlerhof station on the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway via Altenglan to Kusel.