[4] On 17 March 1920 there was fighting at the station during the Ruhr Uprising, between units of the Ruhr Red Army and a vanguard of the Freikorps Lichtschlag, in response to the Kapp Putsch.

[5] The station is also a bus junction and an important point of interchange between rail and urban transport.

It is served by the express bus route SB38 and city bus lines 541, 553, 555, 591, 592, 593 and 595, operated by Hagener Straßenbahn AG, Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr and Busverkehr Rheinland, at hourly intervals.

[1] It is considered as a halt (German: Haltepunkt)[4] from an operational point of view, as all crossovers have been removed.

The station is close to the Ruhrtal Center, a shopping centre.