[1] The station was named after Sir William Morgan, who was the Chief Secretary of the state at that time.

[2] The station building consisted of a ticket office, refreshment rooms, railway platform and goods cranes.

[4] Morgan eventually became one of the busiest shipping ports on the Murray and the second biggest in South Australia.

[5] About six trains a day carried freight from the Murray to the sea at Port Adelaide.

[8] There were proposals to extend the line beyond Morgan to Wentworth, and even as far as Hay to provide a more direct railway route to Sydney.