Molong–Dubbo railway line

It opened in 1925[3] with expectations of high traffic as ten crossing loops and significant attended passenger station facilities and sophisticated train control and an automatic signalling systems were provided; however, the line never operated to its designed capacity.

Passenger services were operated by CPH railmotors between 1932 and 1974, with the occasional diversion of other mainline trains over the line.

The rail motor was withdrawn in September 1974 along with many other branch services during a nationwide fuel crisis.

[4] The line saw considerable grain haulage however, but the general freight downturn in the 1980s, the opening of the Ulan line and the diversion of western grain for export from Glebe Island to Bullock Island (via Merrygoen) and to Port Kembla (via Stockinbingal) and a transfer of some local grain haulage to road transport saw the line's demise, and it was truncated north of Yeoval in 1987 with the remainder officially closed in 1993.

In 2012, Alkane Resources expressed an interest in upgrading and opening the line for transporting goods and ore to and from its Rare Earth Mine, 30 km south of Dubbo, at Toongi.