It is a triangular station, built at a railway junction.

The present building was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the Prussian state railways to the design of Alexander Rüdell.

[6][7] In the early 20th century a three km long marshalling yard was built to the west of the station, but it has since been closed and demolished.

No long-distance services stop at the station, but it is served by the Wupper-Express (RE 4), the Maas-Wupper-Express (RE 13), the Wupper-Lippe-Express and the (RE 49) Regional-Express services and the Rhein-Wupper-Bahn (RB 48) Regionalbahn service and lines S8, S9, S28 and S68 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.

[8] It is a short walk from both Bruch and Vohwinkel (Schwebebahn) on the Wuppertal Schwebebahn (Wuppertal Suspension Railway)