[6][7] As a result of the collapse of the 1880s Land Boom, regular services to Altona Beach ceased after August 1890, and the Victorian Government declined the offer of the owners to gift it the line.

In the 1890s, a company opened a brown coal mine near the terminus of the line and, in 1907, a siding was built in the same area to enable sand to be dispatched by rail.

[4] For a period of time, de-motored McKeen railmotors were used as carriages on steam-hauled passenger services.

[4] By the early 1980s, the station, and the line itself, was under threat of closure, as recommended in the Lonie Report.

[13] Platform 1: CDC Melbourne operates three bus routes via Altona station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria: Kinetic Melbourne operates one SmartBus route to and from Altona station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria: