The double-track, electrified section between Trier-Ehrang and the Moselle bridge at Konz forms a bypass of the Trier rail node.

The Zweckverband Schienenpersonennahverkehr Rheinland-Pfalz Nord (municipal association for rail transport in northern Rhineland-Palatinate) plans to use the line again for passengers with an hourly Regionalbahn connection from Wittlich to Luxembourg.

Secondly, Prussia wanted to create new export opportunities for coal mining on the Saar, and specifically for the Dillinger Hütte (steelworks) and the Boch pottery in Mettlach.

The construction of the Moselle Line between Koblenz and Trier, opened on 15 May 1879, led to the Eifel Railway losing most of its passenger traffic.

This ran from Ehrang over the Moselle near Pfalzel to the new Trier Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) and then on to Konz-Karthaus, where it connected to lines to Saarbrücken, Metz and Luxembourg.

Biewer station was built on the track running towards Ehrang on an overpass crossing over a double-track freight line.

The railway to the Euren/Zewen industrial area is served from Monday to Friday at noon by a freight exchange train (Übergabegüterzug), which runs regularly from Ehrang via Trier-West and Euren.

The 14 km-long Trier West Railway began at Ehrang station and reached Biewer at the 3.1 km point.

The line runs along the left bank of the Moselle to the former Pallien station (5.8 km), past sandstone cliffs, which are up to 80 m high, on the sides of the Joster and Fichten mountains.

It is about 2.5 km long and is used primarily to connect to Japan Tobacco International and the champagne manufacturer, Schloss Wachenheim.

The junction with the Sauer valley line was near the Löwener Mühle hotel ("Igel-West," between Wasserbillig and Igel) until it was dismantled in the late 1960s.

At a meeting of transport ministers Claude Wiseler and Peter Ramsauer on 7 October 2011, it was announced that the line between Igel station and Igel-West would be duplicated again at a cost of €19.6 million.

[3] The bridge where federal highway 49 crosses the line on the outskirts on Igel towards Luxembourg and Löwener Mühle, is to be demolished in the spring of 2013 and replaced.