In the late 19th–early 20th centuries it was a bustling place — there were mills, hotels, piers and the city's largest stand for horse-cab drivers. During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), the Romodanovsky Station was a busy railway terminal, but in the 1960s most of the passenger traffic was diverted to the Moscow–Nizhny Novgorod railway. The Romodanovsky Station kept some suburban trains for dacha destinations. When in the 1970s landslides destroyed the railway tracks, it was decided to dismantle them and discontinue the service.

In 2001, Romodanovsky Station entered a period of unexpected renaissance. The exterior of the station building was recreated from old photographs and drawings with a great respect for the original. Today, it houses a facility for making plastic cards, so the access to the site is restricted, but nothing prevents you from admiring the building from the outside.