The entrance building was designed by the architect Julius Eugen Ruhl, like the station to its immediate west at Wilhelmsbad.

Before the building of the line there was a government crisis in Hesse in 1852, because Elector Frederick William expected a bribe of 100,000 thalers from the Bernus du Fay bank before he would sign the appropriate license for the extension of the railway towards Aschaffenburg.

It built a workshop building south of the tracks in the eastern railway station area, east of Philippsruher Allee and the former Main Canal (which connected Neustadt Hanau to the Main river); this workshop still existed between the World Wars, however, it was no longer used for railway purposes.

[6] Relics of the first Hanau station long existed north of the tracks, including an unloading facility for local freight and a roundhouse.

In the national timetable (Reichs-Kursbuch) of 1914, the last peacetime issue before the First World War, the station is listed as Hanau West (Stadt) ('"city").

Since 14 December 2008, a train operated by VIAS GmbH stops in the afternoon at Hanau West on its way from Frankfurt to Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach.

With the development of the western part of the inner city, Hanau West station would regain some of its former importance.