It is served by KiwiRail's Northern Explorer long distance train between Wellington and Auckland.

About 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of the station the railway performs the convoluted dance that is the Raurimu Spiral, one of New Zealand's most impressive feats of engineering.

[2] Scheduled passenger services to Waimarino National Park railway station were suspended from December 2021[3] to 25 September 2022.

This name had come into common usage, due to the station's proximity to Tongariro National Park, and it also served to avoid confusion with other places called Waimarino.

[6] In August 2023, KiwiRail erected new signage at the Railway Station recognising the original name of Waimarino.

With the arrival of caterpillar tractors in the 1930s, the extraction process was accelerated with National Park station having one of the greatest throughputs of timber in New Zealand.

[7] Marton Sash and Door Co had a tramway, which ran about 5 km (3.1 mi) south-west from the station.