When the railway line was renovated and reopened for passenger trains of line no. 9 of Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn in September 2020 the train station of Herten was not reopened again and since then the trains have passed Herten without stopping there. In August 2021, however, construction of a new train station in the centre of Herten was started.
In September 2020, the railway line for Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line no. 9 was reopened after renovation, but the train station at Herten remained closed and trains have been passing through without stopping there ever since. Construction on a new train station in the center of Herten began in August 2021.