[4][5] The station was built near the military exercise camp and range, and helped the surrounding neighbourhoods develop, as it attracted residents.

[6] A post office was built at the station on 21 March 1924,[7] and opened on 1 April 1924.

[10] In November 1955, a new service was introduced in which lorries would arrive at the station in the morning and in the evening to bring people to and fro from work from the station.

The site was one of several possible locations for a railbus station for the railbus line that the Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) planned to build in Singapore.

[12] On 26 November 1921, a man was run over and killed by an oncoming train near the station.