The section of the Alme Valley Railway from Büren to Brilon Wald was opened on 1 April 1901.
The regularly scheduled passenger services on the Möhne Valley Railway between Belecke and Brilon ended on 26 September 1958.
Museum train services have operated in the summer months on the Brilon Stadt–Büren (Westf)-Weinberg section since 1981.
Its realisation has previously been postponed several times, but at the end of 2008 the Ministry for Construction and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia agreed to add Brilon Stadt station to its infrastructure financing plan on condition that the Zweckverband SPNV Ruhr-Lippe (association for rail passenger transport of Ruhr-Lippe, ZRL) also funded the line from Brilon Wald to Brilon Stadt.
The ZRL decided on 23 June 2009 to resume scheduled regional services on this section from the timetable change of December 2011.
A platform that is accessible by the disabled was built for the reactivation of Brilon Stadt station.