Kandel, however, did not give up immediately and made a written proposal. Nevertheless, a route through Wörth was adopted. This was approved on 15 March 1874. Both the extension of the railway line from Schifferstadt to Germersheim to Wörth station and its extension to Strasbourg were opened on 25 July 1876. Thus, the station became a railway junction within the Palatinate and experienced major reconstruction for the first time. A second track was installed between Winden and Maximiliansau. A second track was also installed on the lines to Schifferstadt and Strasbourg from 1906. From this time onwards, until the outbreak of the First World War, all of the express trains coming from Ludwigshafen used this route; these previously had to detour via the Palatine Maximilian Railway. After the war, Alsace-Lorraine, which had belonged to the German Empire since 1871, was given back to France and long-distance traffic on the Wörth–Strasbourg railway was permanently transferred to lines through neighbouring Baden. The station was integrated into the newly founded "Reichsbahndirektion Ludwigshafen" (railway division of Ludwigshafen) in 1922. During its dissolution on 1 May 1936, the station was transferred to the jurisdiction of the railway division of Karlsruhe. In 1938, the line to Karlsruhe between Wörth and Maxau was realigned during the building of the fixed Rhine Bridge. In addition, Wörth station received an additional, third platform and a connecting subway at the same time. Operations between Wörth and Neustadt was again possible by the end of April 1945. As a result of the bombing of the Rhine Bridge, operations to the east could only recommence two years later. After the Second World War, the section between Winden and Wörth was reconstructed as one track during the French occupation to provide reparations. Deutsche Bundesbahn transferred the station after the Second World War to the "Bundesbahndirektion Mainz" (railway division of Mainz), along with all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1971, the station returned to the jurisdiction of its Karlsruhe counterpart during the dissolution of the railway division of Mainz. The electrification of the line from Karlsruhe to Wörth followed in 1974, in order to avoid the need for freight trains from the east having to change of locomotives in Karlsruhe.