Geislingen (Steige) station is located at the 61.3 kilometre point of the Fils Valley Railway in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

When Georg von Buhler and Carl Christian von Seeger originally planned a railway line from Stuttgart to Ulm, the connection through the Fils valley was in competition with a devious route along the Rems and Brenz valleys.

The building of the road along the ancient track over the Jura that was known as the Geislinger Steige in 1824 did little to improve trade.

The proposal to construct the Eastern Railway gave the councillors of the town and the Oberamt new hope and promised a good connection.

On 16 December 1841, they wrote a petition in which they discussed the economic importance of the region and its production of flour, beer, grain, cattle, wood and stones.

Large movements of earth were needed to build the railway to the station and the Geislinger Steige.

The station was built north of the town centre in order to make it the focal point of the villages of Altenstadt, Eybach und Weiler.

Daniel Straub continued to operate his tool making plant and he built an iron foundry and machine shop.

On 29 June 1852, exactly two years after the inauguration of the Geislinger Steige railway, Michael Knoll died.

With the electrification of the Stuttgart–Ulm line, on 1 June 1933, the use of bank engines on the Geislinger Steige was no longer generally necessary, although they are still used for heavy freight trains.

The Art and History Association (Kunst- und Geschichtsverein) of Geislingen had campaigned since 2006 to have the Knoll Memorial returned from the Geislinger Steige to its original location.