When it was built, it was a border station between Bavaria and Prussia and also the terminus of the historic Palatine Ludwig Railway.

A single-track line was completed to Bexbach in the summer of 1848 and one year later it was extended to the border at Wellesweiler.

The most important reason for the construction of the entire line was the transport of coal from the mines located on Bavarian territory in Bexbach, St. Ingbert and (later) also Frankenholz.

For many years coal was transported from the mines to Bexbach station in horse carts and later from Frankenholz by ropeway conveyor.

[5] In addition, Bexbach station was of great strategic importance as it was the area of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.

At the north end of the station, a 500-metre-long loading ramp was built in 1870,[6] which was able to unload more than 50 troop trains a day in the First World War.

The cast iron canopy of the house platform was built around the turn of the century, but it was removed at the latest in the early 1980s during one of the many modifications of the station.