The station was a green and red building serving the New York and Greenwood Lake Railway, along with the Caldwell Branch.

By the early 1970s, the station had fallen into disrepair, and by 1974, was repainted Erie Railroad-style red with the tool shed box car removed.

After making deals with the mayor of Little Falls, New Jersey Transit gave the station a one-year "trial" to attract ridership.

The Great Notch station depot was built in 1905 for the New York & Greenwood Lake Railway, a subsidiary of the Erie Railroad.

The station (telegraph call "GA") was just west of the Great Notch interlocking signal tower (telegraph call "GN"), which was built in 1900 to serve the junction of the Greenwood Lake Railway and its Caldwell Branch, heading south (railroad westbound) for the communities of Cedar Grove, Verona, Caldwell and Essex Fells.

Due to the removal of the tool boxcar, the propane tanks that heated the station building were also made visible.

In June 1979, the State of New Jersey began to remove the tracks for the Caldwell Branch, which also lay abandoned at Great Notch.

Further exacerbating the problem was that the small lot abutting Notch Road was not marked specifically for train passengers only.

In January 2008, without knowledge of the township council, New Jersey Transit announced further and drastic service cuts at Great Notch.

On that day, New Jersey Transit announced it would add two more trains in each direction on April 16 as a "one-year trial" for station ridership.

[13] On December 18, 2009, New Jersey Transit contacted Little Falls and said that the station would close in January 2010, three months before the year-long trial period was set to end.

It cited continued low ridership, as on average of nine passengers a day boarded the train at Great Notch.