It is on the Cologne–Duisburg line, and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.

[6] On 23 January 1998, the station was heritage-listed by the city of Düsseldorf in the category of technical monuments.

[7] In 1843, the Prussian Ministry of Finance gave the Cologne-Minden Railway Company permission to build a railway line from Cologne via Düsseldorf to Minden.

This old station was demolished, because it had become too small for the number of passengers using it and because raising the entire four-track railway line by 2.5 metres allowed a bridge to be over the street.

On 25 May 1965 Queen Elizabeth II visited Benrath and was received by the then Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Franz Meyers at the station, which had been decorated for the occasion.