[2][3] A passing loop remains at the station site.

[11] Trains started to run on the line when the Feilding – Halcombe Section opened on Monday 22 April 1878.

[12] To ease congestion between Palmerston North and Marton, the loop was opened at Maewa[13] in 1914,[14] it being noted on 27 February that a tablet porter was needed.

[16] From 1933 a goods train stopped at Maewa, carrying Feilding passengers visiting the cemetery.

[14] Electric lighting was introduced in 1938,[18] the loop was extended in 1939[19] and work was done to ease the gradient for trains from Halcombe,[20] though it still didn't stop trains stalling on it.