The station was opened on 27 May 1979 on a section of the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway, opened by the Rhenish Railway Company (German: Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) between Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen and Hagen RhE station (now Hagen-Eckesey depot) on 15 September 1879.

[5] It has one platform track and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station.

The only entrance to the station is a staircase which leads to Minervastraße.

The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Hagen and line S 9 between Recklinghausen and Hagen over Gladbeck, Bottrop, Essen, Velbert, Wuppertal, both every 60 minutes.

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