"Apart from its passenger traffic, it handled the bulk of the city's produce, which came through Te Aro consigned to the Courtenay Place markets ... [and] it received the city's milk supply prior to distribution.

"[3] Otherwise there were no freight facilities provided, although Hoy's sketch of the station layout shows a Defence Siding & Store, plus three sidings, a footbridge and water tanks.

A new general manager of railways condemned the station in 1913 describing as uneconomic any agreement to the pleas of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce to have it retained it as a purely goods station[4] and the line was closed in 1917.

In 2007, the demolition of The Warehouse building on Tory St revealed remains of the track and platform of the station.

[7] The site is now occupied by the Museum Hotel and Monument Apartments.