The Nims–Sauer Valley railway (Nims-Sauertalbahn) branched off here to the now closed Bitburg Town station, the remaining part of which is only used for freight traffic and occasional excursion trains.

Due to the difficult topography and the low population density of the Eifel, railways reached it quite late.

Due to the war, train traffic between Trier and Cologne was interrupted from the winter of 1944 onwards and only restarted in stages in 1946, so there were no direct connections between Erdorf and these destinations.

The part of the building that adjoins to the south of the ticket hall is accentuated by a projecting bay-like dwarf gable structure.

[7] These splendid "palaces" (Schlösser) were financed from the money that France had to pay as reparations to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War.

From the opening of the Nims-Sauer Valley Railway there was a locomotive shed, and a small turntable at Erdorf station, which existed until the 1960s.