The Dutch Westphalian Railway (NWE) began to build its Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck–Winterswijk line in 1878.

[4] The Prussian state railways (PSE) took over the line of the NWE in 1889.

Just two months later, on 1 October 1902, the Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn (Westphalian Lands Railway, WLE) opened its terminus of the Borken–Steinfurt line nearby.

On 1 October 1904, the PSE opened the Borken-Coesfeld section of the Empel-Rees–Münster line.

Borken station is now served only by a single Regional-Express service.