The town that developed around the railway station has over the decades become the largest settlement of the municipality of Amstetten.

Knoll and his colleague Karl Etzel constructed the Geislinger Steige and foresaw that all trains would have to be assisted by pusher locomotives up this five and a half kilometre-long ramp in order to climb the Swabian Jura (Schwäbische Alb).

On 29 June 1850, Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen) opened the Geislingen–Ulm section.

A two-storey entrance building with arched windows on the ground floor faced the track towards Geislingen.

The State Railway built a residential building for their staff at the station in 1851 and a freight shed with a caretaker apartment in 1860.

Also in 1875, a timber merchant moved from Hofstett-Emerbuch and established the Zum Rößle inn to a new building (now Hauptstraße 62).

They planned a line that would branch from the Eastern Railway at Amstetten, Lonsee, Westerstetten or Beimerstetten.

But in 1901, the WEG suggested that a railway line should first be built from Amstetten to Gerstetten and then possibly extended to Herbrechtingen.

The completion of the electrification of the Eastern Railway on 1 June 1933 ended the need for the pushing of trains between Geislingen and Amstetten.

In 1970, Deutsche Bundesbahn demolished the historic station building and replaced it with a simple structure with a flat roof.

The Ulm Railway Society (Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde) bought both lines and used them for the operation of historical trains and railcars.

It is connected via a transfer track to the Fils Valley Railway towards Ulm, which ends at a switchback.