[4] In 1942, a 600 mm gauge Feldbahn (field railway) was opened from Hovelhof station, to the Stalag 326 prisoner of war camp, which was 5 km away.

On 15 May 1949, the legendary Heckeneilzug (“hedgerow express”) ran along the Senne Railway for the first time on the Bremen Hbf–Frankfurt (Main) Hbf route.

With the closure of passenger services on the Buren–Brilon section of the Alme Valley Railway in 1974, the beginning of the end had come for these trains.

This was a consequence of the rapid, especially economic development in the area of the station, while Liemke’s original centre had stagnated since the opening of the line.

The name Windelsbleiche for the station in the former municipality of Senne I was a result of the successful advocacy of Windel, a local textile company.

After fierce debate on the granting of appropriate state funds in February 2006, the regional council of Ostwestfalen-Lippe decided to give the upgrade project the first place of its list of priorities, so that the line is included in the integrated transport plan for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

In May 2011, the upgrading of the line began at Hövelriege station, where a new platform was built on the opposite side of a level crossing.

The train crossings usually occur on the symmetry minute in Sennestadt and also in Sennelager at hourly intervals.

The carriage of bicycles has, however, been limited due to lack of space since the change of the operator to NordWestBahn and reservations have general been required since 2009 (a booking is now recommended).

The northern section to Schloss Holte is covered by Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund OWL fares.

The section from Hövelriege to Paderborn is covered by the Hochstift-Tarif (fares) of the Nahverkehrsverbund (local transport association of) Paderborn-Höxter.

[13] The station building in Bad Lippspringe was built with extensions of solid construction and a freight shed with three tracks of utilitarian design.

After 1945, passenger services never again reached the average of about six pairs of trains a day that prevailed between the line's opening and the beginning of the war in 1939.

The station building in Bad Lippspringe was acquired by the city after the closure of passenger services and demolished in 1973[14] due to disrepair.