 Wattenscheid station, which is more than a kilometre to the northwest is only served by regional trains.The Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg line of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company () was put into operation from the former Bochum Süd station to Mülheim on 1 March 1862.A waiting room with a ticket office was opened in Höntrop on 1 June 1886.