 The station was opened with the section of the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway from Erkrath to Wuppertal-Vohwinkel built by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company on 10 April 1841.The line between Erkrath and Hochdahl has a gradient of 3.33% and rises 82 m in about 2.5 km.For more than one hundred years, this was the steepest main line in Europe.