Today the Deutsche Bahn has classified Hof Hauptbahnhof as category 3 – a regional hub/long-distance stop.

The border between the two railway administrations ran exactly through the middle of the station building, along the axis of symmetry.

Above the entrance on the station forecourt and in the main hall on the track side the royal coats of arms of Bavaria and Saxony are still to be found today.

To the south the Moschendorf bridge crosses the river between Oberkotzau and Hof in the district of Moschendorf; to the north the line switches from one side of the river to the other in the district of Unterkotzau at the Unterkotzau bridge between Hof and Feilitzsch.

The importance of Hof Hauptbahnhof to the German railway system has varied significantly during its history.

During the state railway (Länderbahn) era, Hof was the intersection of the Bavarian and Saxon state railways, as mentioned above, which required frequent locomotive changes at Hof with the corresponding cost in staff and materiel as well as two separate groups of operating facilities.

During that time, however, Hof became an important hub within the railway network between Dresden, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Bamberg, Regensburg and [[Plzeň] and for regional traffic.

After the Second World War Hof was cut off to the north and east by the Iron Curtain and returned to being just the junction between two railway administrations.

Following Die Wende the importance of Hof Hauptbahnhof for railway traffic initially rose once more.

In 1991 a rapid regional link was introduced between Hof and Nuremberg using tilting trains of Class 610, which were also heavily used by passengers changing from Saxony and Thuringia.

Likewise, the Interregio line, Munich-Berlin, was reduced to a regional service (with changes at Regensburg, Hof and Leipzig, and frequent stops), which actually led to a growth in passenger traffic on the ICE line Munich-Nuremberg–Bamberg–Leipzig–Berlin, but meant long waits for passengers in north-east Bavaria, because to get to Munich or Berlin a longer journey to Nuremberg or Bamberg was now needed.

Similarly, on the introduction of a shut-down of operations on the Marktredwitz–Regensburg route, the crossing point of the Munich–Berlin and Stuttgart–Dresden night train pairs was moved to Nuremberg.

Since the switch from an Intercity link to an Interregioexpress service, the journey time on the Nuremberg–Hof–Dresden route has been reduced by 39 minutes, even though Hof is now no longer officially a long-distance stop.

The ICE-TD unit, number 605 009, fell from the lifting platform (Hebebühne) and was badly damaged.

The vehicle was initially kept for spare parts but, after the withdrawal of Class 605, it was taken away to Chemnitz for scrapping on the night of 18/19 April 2004 on a low loader.

The old station building stood on the site of the present-day town post office on Dr.-Konrad-Adenauer-Platz (lately Postplatz, formerly Bahnhofsplatz).

At the start of the 20th century the station building was replaced by a new post office block, that still exists today.

Directly behind the post office – on Hallplatz – is another large section of the original Einsteighalle (boarding hall) of the old station.