This has been redeveloped as the East Gippsland Rail Trail, a shared bicycle, walking, and horse-riding track.

[2] The railway line opened to Bairnsdale in 1888, and from 1916, continued through to Orbost, until this section was closed in 1987.

Following major infrastructure repairs, the passenger service was restored on 3 May 2004, as part of the Linking Victoria program.

[3][4] Until mid-2009, a five-day-a-week freight train hauling logs from Bairnsdale to North Geelong Yard operated from a siding approximately 2.5 km west of the station.

Bairnsdale station is 14 metres (46 ft) above sea level, and 275 kilometres (171 mi) from Melbourne.