During the modernisation of the Mid-Germany Railway, the station received a new island platform and was reduced to two through tracks.

The town centre of Bad Klosterlausnitz, which the station is also named after, is located about one and a half kilometres away.

[3] An ammunition train was hit and bombed during an air raid on the morning of 11 April 1945.

Large amounts of this ammunition were simply left in a crater and were only cleared when the bus station was renovated years later.

Another reconstruction of the forecourt took place a year later, including the building of the bus station.

A secondary building at the station, which had served to supply water for toilets and for the steam locomotives, was demolished in 1974.

Celebrations were held on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Weimar–Gera railway on 3 July 1976, with many people gathering at Hermsdorf station.

[3] The planning approval process for the replacement of the station bridge was initiated on 19 February 2000.

Initially the town did not receive the additional payment required from Deutsche Bahn.

During the work on the forecourt of the station, fire bombs from 1772 and two smoke grenades deployed during the Second World War were uncovered, which caused an elaborate evacuation.

[3] Two thieves removed the tracks of a siding with a welding torch on 9 February 2008, but they were caught in the act.

However, some of the long-distance services on the line did not stop there, including the InterRegio trains that ran from 1993 onwards.

After the war, the line through Hermsdorf-Klosterlausnitz gradually gained in importance as the most southerly east-west link in the GDR.

There were now only seven daily stopping services, plus three pairs of trains from Hermsdorf-Klosterlausnitz to Gera and back.

The Reichsbahn gradually increased its long-distance service offer on the route via Hermsdorf.

Just a few years later, however, the number of long-distance services stopping at the station was noticeably reduced.