It opened on 9 December 1914 from a junction with the Morgan line at Eudunda running 21.6 kilometres via Point Pass to Robertstown.

Grain trains serving the Robertstown silos were among the last traffic to use the line in its later years.

The only significant railway remnants left are the former Robertstown station sign and the former goods crane.

[4] The goods crane has collapsed, though there are plans to restore it.

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