[5] In 1869, the railway was open all the way from Würzburg to Treuchtlingen and, in 1875, it was joined by the line from Nuremberg, which was extended over the state border to Crailsheim in 1876.

In 1903, the Leutershausen-Wiedersbach–Bechhofen railway was opened, whose trains were nicknamed Boggala in the Bechhofen dialect, and usually ran through to Ansbach.

In the summer holidays of 2010, DB Netz closed the north-eastern dead-end platform in Ansbach station between tracks 1 and 1a and rebuilt it.

[6] The S-Bahn network was significantly expanded at the timetable change in December 2010.

Most of the town bus lines stop here as do many regional buses that connect Ansbach to the surrounding area.