[1] The station was built as part of the extension of a fragment of the Rhenish Railway Company's Ruhr line, which opened in 1874.

Extension of the S 4 line from its current western end in the tunnel at Dortmund-Lütgendortmund was formerly planned to be implemented with a target of opening it in 2015.

Upon taking office, the transport minister Oliver Wittke called for all such proposals to be re-evaluated.

The line extension has been removed from the integrated transportation plan for North Rhine-Westphalia; a resubmission is possible from 2015.

The former Lütgendortmund station at the district border with Marten and Kley is now called Dortmund-Germania, after the former Germania colliery.