[1] The line was originally taken over and extended partly to allow for military manoeuvres[2] as part of "the Russian Scare" and as a reaction to the Jervois-Scratchley reports, which also saw the building of Fort Glanville and Fort Largs to protect South Australian shipping around the same time.

The line appears to have had five stations at some early time: Grange, Kirkaldy, Marlborough Street, "Henley Beach Jetty Road", and Henley Beach.

The line was cut back to the now defunct original Grange station, which was cut even further back to the current Grange station in the 1986 by removal of tracks across Military Road and infrastructure from the original platform.

The unused platform still remains on the side of the road.

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