The station, which is served by regional and long-distance passenger services and freight traffic, is on the outskirts of the town of Montabaur.

The circulatory area houses a Deutsche Bahn travel centre with two ticket offices, toilets, a waiting room and lockers.

In other commercial areas there is a snackbar, a drugstore, a barbershop and an ATM of the Sparkasse Westerwald (savings bank).

An underpass is connected by two escalators, stairs and a lift to give access to both platforms.

v The 2007 timetable (commencing on 10 December 2006) included around 80 trains stopping in Montabaur on each working day: The ICE services (38 trains on weekdays) take nine minutes to cover the 21.4 rail km to Limburg Süd station.

Critics call this connection, which is authorised to operate at speeds of up to 300 km/h, the "fastest S-Bahn in the world".

This number had grown to 900 by August 2006 and another 130 paid parking spaces are under the bus station.

All four long-distance tracks (1–4) are equipped with the Linienzugbeeinflussung automatic train protection system.

East and west of the station are sets of points leading to the platform tracks.

The stations of Limburg Süd and Montabaur, which are approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) apart, have been criticised in the past as being the result of political blackmail.