The standard gauge, single-tracked Lokalbahn is 4.8 km long and was opened for goods traffic on 26 November 1913 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways.

Not until the lack of fuel in the Second World War brought buses to a halt was a passenger service offered on 19 July 1943 using a coach attached to the goods train.

This was provided at the instigation (and risk) of the town authorities until 13 April 1945 and thus never appeared in the German railway timetable.

After the war the Nuremberg railway division laid on three pairs of passenger trains daily on workdays from 16 January 1947.

As economic conditions improved, passengers turned back to the buses and also to private vehicles, so that in the 1956 summer timetable only two pairs of trains ran on workdays.