The closest of those lines are used by V/Line to reverse empty services from Traralgon and Bairnsdale, while the tracks further south are used by a variety of standard gauge freight operators.

They included a siding to a large wool store to the north-east (now demolished), one to a warehouse and silos to the east (open but no longer served by rail), and two sidings to the north serving the Melbourne City Council abattoirs and Kenstore, a military warehouse complex that opened during World War II.

The current configuration of the station dates from 2014, as part of the Regional Rail Link (RRL) project.

[7] The disused station office, located near the entrance to the pedestrian underpass on Childers Street, was also provided around that time.

[4] In 2020, in a survey conducted by the RACV, South Kensington was ranked as the worst railway station in Victoria.