It was built by the Mount Dundas and Zeehan Railway Company and opened on 25 April 1892.
[1] Under an agreement signed on 4 February 1891, the Tasmanian Government Railways (TGR) operated the line.
The closure of the Silver Bell smelters in 1913 virtually ended mining in the Dundas district, leaving the railway with only a small amount of passenger and timber traffic.
The EBR provided a locomotive to work whatever trips ran thereafter, until a stop block was placed at the junction in June, 1932.
[1] The official closure date is given as 5 July 1932, after which contractors were permitted to work timber over the line by horse-power.