Halbury opened in 1870 on the isolated horse-drawn tramway built to deliver grain from the plains east of Port Wakefield in the areas of Balaklava, Halbury and Hoyle's Plains (now Hoyleton).

[3] On 1 August 1927, the line gauge converted to 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm).

[4] The station was named after the cadastral unit the town was in Hundred of Hall.

[6] The line through Halbury closed on 29 March 1989 [7] and the track was dismantled by 1992; there is no longer any trace of the station.

It was built in memory of a local elite cyclist Shamus Liptrot who died in 2011, several years after suffering injuries in a cycling accident.