Using a connecting curve, the coal trains could also run directly to Chemnitz.

As early as August 1862, the station had to be expanded, since public passenger and goods traffic to Lugau were permitted from then on.

In 1899, a new entrance building and a workshop were built at a cost of about 85,000 marks for the same reason.

In the 1995/96 timetable, the 1667 express from Munich to Dresden stopped in Wüstenbrand every Friday.

During the upgrade of the Saxon-Franconian trunk line, the system of tracks was extensively rationalised in the late 1990s, leaving only two passing loops with outside platforms and two sidings.