The enclosed garden still contains mature exotic trees including cotoneaster, phoenix palm and orange.

There were sidings and a wood yard selling firewood west of this platform where the standard gauge line to Darwin now runs.

Special event trains for the annual Skyshow fireworks previously used this station as a terminus.

When the Schützenfest is held at the nearby Bonython Park in January each year, most trains stop at this station.

In recent times the station building was used for housing a community group, Bicycle SA (1996-circa 2004).