[1] It became a junction station on 5 July 1918 with the opening of the branch line to Clare (later extended to Spalding in 1922).

[citation needed] A shooting occurred at the station on 22 March 1921, when Russian gunman Koorman Tomayoff departed the Broken Hill Express at Riverton and fired at several people, killing 2.

[2] It became the first political assassination in Australia as one of the deaths was New South Wales politician Percy Brookfield, who had attempted to subdue the gunman before being shot.

[4][5][6] Tomayoff was later declared insane and so he was never prosecuted, his motives for the shooting remaining unclear.

Regular passenger services on the Peterborough line ceased in December 1986.