It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.

For many years trains had to be hauled by cable, originally driven by a stationary steam engine.

A few months later, haulage by cable attached to a stationary steam engine was changed to haulage by cable attached via pulleys; to a locomotive running downhill on an additional track.

The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen or Hagen every 20 minutes and several S 68 services between Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and Langenfeld in the peak hour.

[6] It is also served by two bus routes operated by Rheinbahn every 20–60 minutes: O5 and 741.