Before the Second World War it was an important stop for express trains and had substantial freight traffic.

Its importance declined after the war in favour of Oberbarmen and since the renaming of the Elberfeld station as Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof.

The building is a rectangular construction of Muschelkalk stone in neoclassical style, with pilasters and arched windows.

This portal wing is topped by a flat triangular tympanum and has tall rectangular windows and oculi in the panels below the beams.

[7] The construction was directed by the government architect, Johannes Ziertmann and Edward Behne of the railway division (German: Eisenbahndirektion) of Elberfeld.