Deutsche Bahn classifies it as belonging to station category 3[1] and has three platforms tracks.

The station is located in the network of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN) and belongs to fare zone 844.

[4] Originally, it had been planned to build a railway orientated north-south within the then Circle of the Rhine (Rheinkreis).

However, it was agreed to first build a highway in the east-west direction, which was to be used primarily for transporting coal from Saar area to the Rhine.

On that day, a special train ran from Ludwigshafen to Kusel, carrying officials of the Palatine Railway and among others the Bavarian Minister of State for Commerce and Public Works, Gustav von Schlör.

[10] The trunk line from Mannheim to Saarbrücken has always been of great importance for long-distance traffic and it was gradually electrified starting in 1960.

[11] During the gradual dissolution of the Mainz railway division in the early 1970s, its counterpart in Saarbrücken again became responsible for the station.

[12] In the course of the integration of the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway in the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn, the station’s platform were made accessible.

[13] The entrance building had already been completed at the end of April 1846, two years before the opening of the station.

[17] From the beginning of the 1950s onwards, a so-called Städteschnellzug (city rapid train) between Kusel and Heidelberg ran in the morning.

From April to October there has been a service between Kusel and Neustadt on Sundays and public holidays running as the Glantal-Express.

Since December 2006, regular S-Bahn services on line S1 run from Homburg via Kaiserslautern, Neustadt, Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Mosbach to Osterburken.

[16] Shortly after the exit of the line to Kusel, a siding from the municipal refinery warehouse, which was a large building, remained until the 1990s.