 There were also passenger services for the mine workforce between 1927 and the closure of the Pörtingsiepen colliery in 1973.In 1975, the Association for the Preservation of Hesper Valley Railway ("Verein zur Erhaltung der Hespertalbahn e. V.") rescued the line from demolition.The trains of the line S 9 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn run past the old building without stopping to stop at the new Essen-Kupferdreh station.