[1] Located in the Hokonui Hills, Winton is to the west, Mataura to the east, and Mabel Bush to the south.

The surveyor John Turnbull Thomson named the mountain after the second-highest peak in the Cheviot Hills of his native Northumberland.

Due to low demand, passengers always had to travel in carriages attached to slow freight services; these were known as mixed trains.

Freight quantities also steadily declined, and in the early 1950s, the decision was taken to close over half the branch.

On 24 December 1953, the branch was truncated to Browns and Hedgehope's railway service fully ceased.