The station was opened on 29 May 1988[4] on the new line opened by the Prussian state railways on 1 October 1891 between the Hamm Railway Bridge and Gerresheim as part of the construction of Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof.

[5] It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.

[1] The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen or Hagen, S 11 between Düsseldorf Airport and Bergisch Gladbach and S 28 between Mettmann Stadtwald or Wuppertal and Kaarster See, each every 20 minutes.

[6] It is also served by one tram line, operated by Rheinbahn at 10-minute intervals: 709.

It is served by bus route 726 operated by Rheinbahn at 30-minute intervals.