[2][3] By February 1880 the contractor, Mr Fallon, had laid the rails from Ōhaupō to a point south of Lake Road.

[5] Lake Road wasn't shown in the original timetable,[6] but, in 1880, there was pressure from local farmers for a station between Ōhaupō and Ngaroto.

[7] In October 1880 it was decided to open a 7th class station at Wrights Road, mid-way between Ōhaupō and Ngaroto.

That year a man died when he'd not informed the guard that he wanted to get off at the flag station and fell from the moving train.

[13] In 1914 the 1 in 43 gradient at Lake Road was eased to 1 in 100, allowing train tonnages to be increased from a maximum of 209 to 494 tons.