[2] This advantageous location of Kamenskaya (now Kamensk-Shakhtinsky) on the Moscow — Voronezh — Kozlov (now Michurinsk) — Rostov-on-Don railway made it possible to develop trade.

Drovers, merchants, businessmen, salespeople begun to work in Kamenskaya thanks to convenient and reliable transport links.

Two mills, churn, Shmidt ironworks, soap and alcohol factories, brewery, meat-packing plant, farm equipment workshop were working here.

Current station building was built in 1951 according to standard design of Kharkiv architectural office.

Kamenskaya is the central Kamensk-Shakhtinsky terminus for long-distance and suburban trains operated by Russian Railways.

The most common destinations are: Rostov-on-Don, Moscow, Adler, Novorossiysk, Anapa, Kislovodsk, Saint Petersburg, Stavropol, Makhachkala, Sukhumi, Vladikavkaz.