Since then the line has become a museum railway worked by the ‘’Rhön-Zügle’’ (“Little Rhön Train”).

After the reunification of Germany the gap between Bavaria and Thuringia was closed and, after 46 years, Mellrichstadt is once again a through station.

Since 1996 the Fladungen branch has been reactivated as a museum railway, services to all the way through to Mellrichstadt beginning again in 2000.

In 2007, Mellrichstadt was served every two hours by the Mainfranken-Thüringen Express from Würzburg to Erfurt and by the Unterfranken Shuttle from Schweinfurt to Meiningen on the Werra Railway.

That results in what is virtually an hourly service between 5 a.m. and 11 p.m. Mellrichstadt station is also the departure point for numerous bus lines belonging to Omnibusverkehr Franken (OVF) which link up a large part of the Bavarian Rhön, a region of low mountains which extends across the border into Hesse and Thuringia.