The S-Bahn line is single track here, as it is all the way from Mülheim (Main) Dietenheim station to Hanau Central Station (German: Hanau Hauptbahnhof).The single platform is on the northeast side of the track and is served by trains in both directions.

This is a somewhat unusual arrangement made necessary because the S-Bahn track runs on the northern side of the line in order to cross Steinheim Main Bridge and to connect immediately afterwards to the tracks on the northern side of Hanau station.

The station was brought into operation with the opening of the S-Bahn in 1995, and it is served by lines S8 and S9.

Owing to various constraints on the route of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway, such as the location of the bridge over the Main and the junction with the north bank line of the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway Company (Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn Gesellschaft, FHE) in Hanau Central Station (then called Hanau Ost (east)), Steinheim station was established quite far from the centres of Steinheim, Klein-Steinheim and Niedersteinheim (0.5 km) and of Obersteinheim and Groß-Steinheim (1.8 km), which meant that traffic was quickly lost to private cars.

The station was closed in several steps: first, in the early 1970s the top floor and the first floor of the entrance building were removed, leaving the mutilated torso of the building with a flat roof.