Another connecting line existed from 1908 to 1938, the Berchtesgaden–Hangender Stein railway, also called the Grüne Elektrische (“Green Electric”).

This line was connected in turn to the Salzburg–Hangender Stein railway, which was called the Rote Elektrische (“Red Electric”).

During the Third Reich, this rail link was closed as part of the planned duplication of the railway and the upgrading of the main road.

In addition, even no 144 507 has been preserved and is kept in the former Weimar locomotive depot by Thüringer Eisenbahnfreunde ("Thuringian railway friends").

In the afternoons, the procedure is similar, that is the services coming from Hamburg immediately return to Freilassing after their arrival.

These four train movements each day replace regular services of the Berchtesgadener Land Bahn (BLB).

Another Intercity service to Berchtesgaden, the pair of trains (2428/2429) from the Ruhr, was, however, withdrawn at the timetable change in December 2007.

From June 2006 to December 2009, these services used as rolling stock ÖBB class 4023 and 4024 (Bombardier Talent) three carriage electrical multiple units.

Originally, it was intended that services would be operated from the start of the line by five three-carriage Stadler FLIRT railcars leased from Angel Trains Europa (now called Alpha Trains,[4] but operations were delayed until 24 and 25 February 2010, by a delay in the approval of the new railcars for the movement of passengers by the Federal Railway Authority (Eisenbahn-Bundesamt, EBA).

But on the following night of 26 February 2010, four parked FLIRT sets were damaged by vandalism in Freilassing and Berchtesgaden stations so badly that at first replacement rolling stock had to be used.

The bulk of the volume of freight are semi-finished steel products from the Annahütte steel works in Hammerau and containers of household waste that are collected in the district and loaded on container wagons, bound for the Freilassing-Hofham waste transfer station and onward transportation for incineration in Burgkirchen an der Alz.