Potschappel station was opened on 28 June 1855 with the inauguration of the two-track line of the Albertsbahn AG and now part of the Dresden–Werdau railway.

The Albertsbahn (Albert’s Railway) was built with the aim of transporting hard coal mined in the Döhlen Basin (Döhlener Becken) to Dresden more quickly.

Potschappel was an important location for the Saxon coal industry, so the opening of a railway station proved to be a good idea.

[3] At the same time, the passenger traffic between Dresden and the growing industrial communities of the Döhlen Basin developed.

The railway was upgraded to four tracks, with work completed in 1914, allowing passenger and goods traffic to be handled separately at Potschappel station.

This would allow the exchange of locomotives between the Wilsdruff narrow-gauge network and the Weißeritz Valley Railway (Weißeritztalbahn), which starts in Hainsberg.

The flood in August 2002 caused devastating damage to the tracks, so that in the following years extensive repairs and new works had to be carried out.

During the reconstruction work, large parts of the PHV line were also dismantled so that a continuous narrow-gauge link between Hainsberg and Potschappel no longer exists.