On 25 August of the following year, the gap to Neustadt was closed, so that the Ludwig Railway had reached its full length.

[7] At the same time, industrialists from the Palatinate, which had also been called the Rheinkreis since the 1830s, had an interest in facilitating the transport of coal to the Rhine from the mines in the area around Bexbach.

A route running generally through Kaiserslautern and as a result Frankenstein was established during the early planning period.

[8] The interests of Paul Camille Denis, the builder of the Ludwig Railway played an important role In the process.

[9][10] On 21 December 1837 the Bavarian king Ludwig I. approved the construction of a main line running east–west from Rheinschanze to Bexbach.

The earth base of the Homburg–Kaiserslautern section had been built at this time and the embankments were largely complete as far as Frankenstein.

The completion of the Neustadt–Frankenstein section was especially delayed by the acquisition of the land required for railway construction and the need to overcome difficult topography.

[16][17] During this time, the station was managed by the operations and construction inspectorate (Betriebs- und Bauinspektion) of Neustadt an der Haardt and was part of the responsibility of the Bahnmeisterei Lambrecht (office of the track master of Lambrecht).

[20] After the Second World War, the newly founded Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) transferred the station to the Bundesbahndirektion Mainz (Bundesbahn railway division of Mainz), which was assigned all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

The trunk line from Mannheim to Saarbrücken has always been of great importance for long-distance traffic and it was gradually electrified starting in 1960.

The electrification of the remaining section was delayed mainly because of the numerous tunnels that had to be enlarged between Kaiserslautern and Neustadt.

A set of points was installed in the eastern part of the station since only the southern track in the adjoining Schlossberg tunnel could be used during the electrification work.

[28] It is a two-and-a-half-storey building, with a shale-covered hip roof with neoclassical features, including a gabled Avant-corps.

[30] After the opening of the Kaiserslautern–Frankenstein section in December 1848, a total of three train pairs originally ran to Homburg.

[37] During the First World War and the inter-war period, local transport was largely limited to the Neustadt–Kaiserslautern route.

In the middle of the Second World War, most local services on the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway ran only on sections of the line.

[39] In 2014, the Rheintal-Express and Weinstraßen-Express services, which ran from May to October on Sundays and holidays on the Koblenz–Bingen–Bad Kreuznach–Rockenhausen–Neustadt route, continuing to Wissembourg or Karlsruhe, stopped in Frankenstein.

In 1871, the normal freight trains on the Ludwig Railway on the Kaiserslautern–Mainz, Homburg–Frankenthal, Ludwigshafen–Neunkirchen, Worms–Homburg routes stopped at the station for between three and five minutes.