With the construction of border defences between East and West Germany that ran close to the Brocken, public train services to the mountain ended on 13 August 1961. Brocken station acted as accommodation for the Border Troops of the GDR. In the period to 1987, only a few materiel goods trains called at the station. After the political changes following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Brocken Railway was reopened in 1991 and Brocken station was once again used as a railway station.