This would have meant that the investment made a few years ago for the reopening and the enlargement of the Petershagen-Lahde station would have gone to waste,[4] but the abolition of local services was averted.

Due to the very low demand for through traffic, the operation of through services between Minden and Rotenburg was abandoned from Mondays to Fridays.

In 2009, they were replaced by class 425 and 426 electric multiple units and occasionally supplemented by double-decker trains in the evening.

Since the end of 2014, the EVB has operated the services on behalf of DB Regio Nord with class 628 diesel railcars[6] with coupled sets (trains numbers up to 14141).

It is operated with four-part Stadler FLIRT (class 429) diesel multiple units that are owned by eurobahn.

Freight traffic runs on the line, including to the Heyden Power Station in Petershagen.

The line was still notable (as of 2013) in operational and railway technical terms because it is consistently equipped with mechanical safety technology, including semaphore signals.