It closed to passenger services on 20 September 1975, and the disused station buildings were subsequently demolished.

This was extended on 2 July 1860 as far as Lochinvar railway station, including the opening of Wollombi Road on this same date.

On 8 March 1938, a night officer at the station, Cyril Clive Maher was shot through the head and killed by three teenagers, Thomas Gibson, Kemmell Coleman and William Date.

A post-mortem revealed that the bullet had caused fragments of lead and bone to scatter throughout Maher's brain.

[2] By the 1960s, patronage had significantly decreased, and the station was officially closed on 20 September 1975, before being demolished.