It ran through the densely populated areas of Ruhrort and Beeck and crossed the Rhine between Beeckerwerth and Baerl on the Haus-Knipp railway bridge.

[4] After crossing the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway, it continued on to Bergheim station to the east of the Toeppersee (lake) to the Hohenbudberg freight and marshalling yard.

[2][4] A year later on 1 September 1913, an additional connection was opened from Buschmannshof junction via Duisburg-Meiderich Süd station to Oberhausen West freight yard.

[5][6] In 1929, a new curve was built from the end of the branch line to Moers to connect with the Lower Rhine Railway running south at the new Meerbeck junction.

This was a planned yard with largely completed earthworks, which was taken into provisional operations with about 15 tracks, but it was not rebuilt after it was destroyed in World War II.