In Reichelsheim it turns north and runs parallel to the Horloff through the municipality of Echzell to the south of the village of Ober-Widdersheim (part of Nidda).

In order to save costs and because low traffic volumes were already foreseen during its planning, it was built to technically simple standards.

The Schotten line branched off to the east from the Gießen–Gelnhausen railway at the northern end of Nidda station and runs to the west of the main road on the route of today's Kohdener Weg to the Paradiesstraße / Hoherodskopfstraße intersection and continues on the left (west) side of Hoherodskopfstraße through the village of Kohden.

The railway line between Eichelsdorf and Rainrod moved slightly away from the road and crossed it approximately halfway between the two villages.

The line also crossed Rainrod near the main street (Frankfurter Straße), but here the halt was on the eastern outskirts, again on the southern side of the road, east of the junction with Brückenstraße.

The line ran on the south side of the highway on what is now the northern shore of the Niddastausee reservoir, which was built after the dismantling of the railway, and ended at its terminus in the town of Schotten.

The station was between the Nidda river and the present federal highway in the area of the Taubenweg; its goods shed still exists and is used for commercial purposes.

Also the Wölfersheim power plant and salt production in Bad Salzhausen brought traffic to the railway.

Because it ran through narrow village streets, the railway was an obstacle for traffic and an accident risk from the first day, which was no longer considered acceptable with the beginning of mass motorisation in the late 1950s.

Freight traffic plays a minor role as a result of the closure of Wetteraukreis’s waste transhipment point in Grund-Schwalheim and the decline of the wood processing industry in Nidda.

However, the Pfleiderer company, which was located in the former Hornitex factory, was still receiving regular deliveries of tank wagons via its siding until its closure in the summer of 2011.