Service wrote back and said that as it was in Victoria, it would be named Serviceton after himself, although at the time of construction the land was claimed by both colonies.

[2] Reflecting its positioning at the border of two colonies before Australia's Federation, it included customs facilities; similarly there were two separate ticket offices, each operated by the respective Victorian and South Australian railways.

On 7 September 1951, the westbound Overland service collided with its eastbound equivalent at the station, killing one person and destroying four A2 class locomotives.

[9] The station ceased to be a crew change-over and train-passing location in March 1984 after a new crossing loop opened at Dimboola[10] and VicRail commissioned a new Centralized Traffic Control signalling system on the Western Line west of Ararat.

American singer Tom Waits included the closure of the station in his song "Town with No Cheer," in his 1983 album Swordfishtrombones.