At the same time a local railway (Lokalbahn) committee was established, with participants from Neuhausen, Bernhausen, Obersielmingen, Untersielmingen and Denkendorf, which supported an extension from Echterdingen to Zell am Neckar.

Instead, the State government approved the establishment of the metre gauge Möhringen-Neuhausen line on 14 April 1896.

In 1903 a Sunday service commenced when the Swabian Albverein (hiking club) opened a new observation tower on the Uhlberg, south of Plattenhardt.

It competed for a short time with the Filder Railway, but it was closed at the outbreak of World War I.

On 1 October 1920 the Deutsche Reichsbahn opened a new line from Rohr to Echterdingen to connect with the Echterdingen–Neuhausen section of the Municipal Filder Railway (Städtischen Filderbahn, SFB).

To make room for it, the line between Echterdingen and Bernhausen had to be relocated and it subsequently ran south of the airport.

On 1 January 1975 the communities of Bernhausen, Bonlanden, Plattenhardt, Sielmingen and Harthausen were amalgamated as Filderlinden, which was renamed as Filderstadt on 25 July 1975.

On 29 September 2001, Deutsche Bahn opened a new tunnel to the new underground Filderstadt station.

The underground station is mostly built under the old railway property and is designed to allow a possible further extension to Neuhausen.

The western access is like a park, having a gently sloping lawn with a water staircase and a sculpture called Filderspiel (“Filder game”).