The station is located in the network of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar transport association, VRN) and belongs to fare zone 121.

About a kilometre and a half from the station area, the Little Cuckoo Railway branches off the main line and turns south across the federal highway and runs through the Elmstein valley to Frankeneck.

Originally it had been planned to build a railway running north–south in the then Bavarian Circle of the Rhine (Rheinkreis).

However, it was agreed to first build a railway running east–west, which was to be used primarily for transporting coal from the Saar district (now part of the Saarland) to the Rhine.

This would have required stationary steam engines and rope haulage to overcome the differences in altitude.

The Bavarian government accepted a bill which would have allowed the construction of branch lines in the Palatinate on 5 April 1892; this would have granted interest rate guarantees for certain routes.

During this time, the construction of a branch line from Lambrecht to Elmstein was also discussed by Andreas Deinhard in the Chamber of Deputies.

Those affected saw the solution to the problem as a railway link that would act as a replacement for the transportation of wood using timber rafts.

[17] In 1902, an industrial siding was opened via Frankeneck to the hamlet of Sattelmühle as a stage towards building a line to Elmstein.

[19][20] During this time, the station was managed by the operations and construction inspectorate (Betriebs- und Bauinspektion) of Neustadt an der Haardt and was the site of a Bahnmeisterei (office of the supervisor of track maintenance).

[23][24][25] In the course of the combat operations during the Second World War, the station building was destroyed in March 1945 by a fire, which was fought by foreign forced labourers.

Since the main line from Mannheim had always had a great significance for long-distance traffic to Saarbrücken, it was gradually electrified, starting in 1960.

The electrification of the remaining section was delayed mainly because of the numerous tunnels between Kaiserslautern and Neustadt that had to be enlarged.

[28][25] The last scheduled freight train south of Frankeneck operated on the Cuckoo Railway on 30 June 1976.

[31] The former freight handling facility, which had last served as a private house, was demolished in 1999 to build a parking area.

On 16 May of the same year, an electronic interlocking was installed in Neustadt, which meant that the station lost its last employee.

[32] The platforms were upgraded in preparation for the integration of the Mannheim-Saarbrücken railway as far as Kaiserslautern into the network of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn in 2003.

This was carried out by Wieland & Schultz GmbH company on behalf of DB Station&Service.

The traffic volume had grown only to a limited extent, so that in 1900 an extension was opened for baggage and express goods.

The sale of tickets and the handling of express goods and luggage took place on the lower floor.

[26] In the 1880s the Palatinate Railway (Pfälzische Eisenbahnen) built a two two-storey mechanical signal box— then called a Zentralapparate ("central apparatus")—of the Bruchsal G class.

They were replaced by a Siemens press button relay interlocking without automatic route-setting (class DrS2), which was located in the entrance building.

At the beginning of the 1960s, during the electrification work, the pedestrian subway, track layout and safety devices were modified.

[44] During the First World War and the inter-war period, local transport was largely limited to the Neustadt–Kaiserslautern route.

[45] In the middle of the Second World War, most local services on the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway ran only on sections of the line.

In 1871, the normal freight trains on the Ludwig Railway on the Kaiserslautern–Mainz, Homburg–Frankenthal, Ludwigshafen–Neunkirchen, Worms–Homburg routes stopped at the station for five minutes.

[50] On 24 December 1881, Palatine Ludwig Railway Company (Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn-Gesellschaft) established a yard for loading timber near the station in order to improve operations.

[54] From the 1980s onwards Übergabezüge (goods exchange trains) served the station, which at that time no longer had an important market.

Bus route 517 connects the station to Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Lindenberg, Esthal, Elmstein and Iggelbach.