The station was along Santa Fe's main line between Chicago and Los Angeles.

The depot was built in a Mission Revival, common for Santa Fe and Southern Pacific stations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[2] By 1953, passenger service to Great Bend consisted of the daily Chicago–Los Angeles California Limited, a daily Newton–Dodge City local round trip, and a six-day-a-week mixed train between Great Bend and Scott City.

The Santa Fe began operating a Dodge City–Great Bend–Newton round trip, trains 311/312, which connected with the Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan at Newton.

[6] The Great Bend–Scott City mixed train, by then down to three weekly round trips, stopped carrying passengers on April 19, 1961.