German towns and cities often have former villages that have been made officially part of the larger town, and the train station would then have the village name and the town name, eg round here Darmstadt-Wixhausen. Or it could have been an actual suburb, that would also show up with the name, eg Frankfurt-Bornheim. You'd want the Hauptbahnhof ;)
The UK also often has more than one train station in a city, eg in Cardiff where I used to live there was Cardiff Central (which would be the one you'd want for changing trains!), Cathays, Queen Street, Cardiff Bay etc.
At least you could see the sign at all. That's not always the case...I went to visit my friend in Bavaria a couple of years ago, arrived at night and couldn't see a sign at all, I just guessed as it was about the right time for the train to arrive at her town and asked one of the boys getting off if it was the right town. And it was.