Originally equipped with two platforms and five tracks, the station was rebuilt from 1878 onwards,[4] since the Greiz-Brunn Railway Company, which was purchased by Saxony in 1876, was extended to Greiz unt Bf.

After extensions carried out as late as the 1920s—for example an around 200 m-long new freight shed was built—the station remained largely unchanged until the 1990s.

[6] Since the end of the Communist system in 1989/90 and the associated economic changes, the freight transport that had been important until 1990 has almost completely disappeared.

In connection with the nationalisation of the Greiz-Brunn Railway Company and the associated extension of the line from Neumark to the "lower" station in Greiz, locomotive workshops were built here.

In 1878, a Heizhaus (a roundhouse where locomotives were heated) and a turntable were opened; two stalls were added to the two-tracked rectangular shed in the following year.

Since the storage facilities were not sufficient, another Heizhaus was built around 1890 next to the existing building in the form of a roundhouse with a 13 m turntable.

[8] An independent Bahnbetriebswerk (locomotive depot, Bw) was originally established at Greiz station in 1937.

DB Regio also operates class 612 sets between Greiz and Erfurt via Gera on a two-hour cycle.

In addition, on some weekends in the autumn, a heritage steam train runs under the name of Elstertal-Express between Gera and Cheb.