It was built of light sandstone and has two full floors and a Kniestock ("knee jamb", which raises the base of a pitched roof to give more usable space).

The volume of traffic rose steadily, as did the number of inhabitants of Fellbach and Schmiden, which both grew towards the station.

This affected Deutsche Reichsbahn: in the annual accounts of 1928, the number of passengers was 337,868, by 1932 this figure had dropped to 228,417.

As conditions for agreeing to be incorporated, the local council's requests included the extension of the tram line to the station, the closure of the level crossing on Bahnhofstraße, next to the station, in favour of an underpass and a commuter service between Stuttgart and Fellbach.

As a result of these and other demands, the Stuttgart City Council rejected the draft agreement of incorporation of 8 March 1932 on 1 April 1932.

On 2 October 1949, Deutsche Bundesbahn completed electrification of the Bad Cannstatt–Waiblingen stretch and electric suburban services began operating between Stuttgart and Waiblingen.

In 1959, the wait at the level crossing on Bahnhofstraße also became a thing of the past when an underpass was completed.