When the railway was opened there was still no station building there, but it was expected to be built—as noted in the annual report for 1844—and the plans had been submitted for approval.

In addition to passengers, it handled the transshipment of the rapidly developing freight as well as livestock transport.

Because of the short staffing at the station in 1942, the mayor called for prisoners to be held there to handle freight.

[8] On 3 November 1992, the first stanchion for the electrification in Schleswig-Holstein was ceremoniously installed in Bordesholm.

In October 1994, the signal box was decommissioned[9] and since then the station has had only two running lines with a crossover.

Deutsche Bahn operates on the line using two Bombardier Twindexx (class 445) sets.