[1] Trains accessed the station via a half-mile tunnel, bored from the cliff face at Herculaneum Dock to Park Road.

On the evening of 23 December 1901 a motor on a train pulling into the station fused, causing large amounts of sparking, which ignited a stack of wooden sleepers by the railside.

[4][5] The general manager of the railway stated that the fusing would "scarcely have caused £5 worth of damage" if not for the wind which was blowing into the tunnel and fanning the flames.

At approximately 11:30am on 24 July 2012, part of the tunnel near Dingle railway station collapsed.

[8][9] In October 2013 work commenced to repair the tunnel,[10] with residents allowed back into their homes in February 2014.