A shorter section, however, is operated as part of the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach line and is a two-track, electrified mainline railway.

Passenger services were closed from Kaarst on 29 September 1968 and freight operations ended in 1984.

30 years later, all passenger operations at the Viersen station were moved back to the location of the former Rhenish station, after the former straight line of the BME route between Mönchengladbach and Viersen was abandoned in favour of a new curved route built further east.

This connected to the former Rhine route between Viersen RhE station and Neersen at the 4.6 km mark.

The section between Neuss Hauptbahnhof and Kaarster See is operated by Regiobahn GmbH as line S 28 of the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn using Bombardier Talent diesel multiple units.