It had a marshalling yard to serve the surrounding iron ore mines and it grew rapidly.

From the mid 1950s, almost all of Betzdorf’s railway tracks and facilities were closed, including the repair shop, the locomotive depot, the Deutsche Bundesbahn operations office, the marshalling yard, the track maintenance office, the signalling maintenance office, the station administration and the freight handling facilities, so now Betzdorf is only a junction for passenger services.

The locomotive depot and carriage shed of the former railway repair facility, built shortly after 1861, are now heritage-listed.

Regional freight transport is regularly operated by the Kreisbahn Siegen-Wittgenstein between the Betzdorf–Haiger railway and Scheuerfeld station and the container terminal in Kreuztal.

Until the closure of the Asdorf Valley Railway (Asdorftalbahn), there were also passenger trains running from here to Freudenberg and Olpe/Dieringhausen.

[7] Since 2012, various media have repeatedly reported that there were plans that the previously dismantled track 107 would be restored for route RB 93 towards Erndtebrück; it has been occupied by a pedestrian link between the commuter parking area and the station.