Former SFRY Marshal Josip Broz Tito visited Kumanovo on 7 March 1957 and was greeted from 50.000 people at the station.

[1] In Oct 2015 several unexploded grenades were found at the Station, according to the Regional Crisis Management Center.

[2] In April 2021 it was announced that the station would be upgraded and modernized, as part of the IPA program and the plan for the construction of the first and second phases of Corridor 8, the railway from Kumanovo-Beljakovce-Kriva Palanka.

[3][4] The station is staffed and can be contacted during opening hours.+389 (0) 31 / 421-707[5] The station is serviced by a number of local, long-distance, and international services, with six trains arriving from Skopje at 6:30, 8:20, 16:18, 19:00, 22:14, 23:00 daily, and two from Belgrade at 07:45 & 18:50, with six trains departing to Skopje 03:55, 05:27, 07:58, 16:50, 17:51, 20:27 and two for Belgrade at 08:51, 22:45 daily.

The local fire brigade later reported that a large number of old thresholds (removed during the reconstruction and upgrade work) were set alight, which because they are covered with bitumen develop a high temperature and emitted toxic black smoke.