It was located in the municipality of Hochemmerich, south of the Duisburg–Hochfeld railway bridge, which was built in 1873, on the site now containing a port and logistics centre called Logport.

The Prussian state railways rebuilt the station in 1894 due to the increased traffic volume.

[5] The tunnel under the platforms has remained in the original form from the period when the station building was built.

[7] The Rheinhausen (Friemersheim) West signal box was built at the time of the construction of the station building on Windmühlenstraße.

The overpass was replaced by the Rheingoldstraße/Bachstraße underpass at the end of the 1950s as the bridge was no longer able to cope with the increasing truck and car traffic because of its restricted width and load capacity.

The Rmf signal box (Rheinhausen Mittefahrtsleiter), which was built in brick construction and positioned east of the railway station between the railway lines, was put into service in 1890 and replaced in 1973 by a relay interlocking on Kruppstraße.

The station has two island platforms, which are connected by a tunnel, which was extended in 2007 to a new entrance on the northern side of the tracks.

Tracks 1 and 2 branch off the line from Duisburg east of the station at a level junction and run to the northern platform, which is used by trains to and from Moers and Xanten.