In addition to a pier, there was a gatehouse and barriers, terminal building, amenities rooms, goods lockers, ablution blocks, railway sidings and passenger gangways.
[4] A passenger rail service was provided to the pier after 30 May 1921 operated by suburban electric trains.
[5] The overhead wiring was removed on 17 August 1953, and the line singled and worked as a siding from 21 March 1961.
[5] With the containerisation boom the pier became unused, being closed to public access in the early 1990s due to the poor timber condition.
[1] A refurbishment, estimated to cost $14 million, was announced by the State Government in April 2006, with the first 196 metres of the pier to be fully restored.