[1] In 1867, residents of Rockhampton signed a petition asking the Surveyor-General to mark out a town at the nearest point on the central Queensland coast where they might be able to enjoy a day at the beach.

Although Yeppoon, then known as "Bald Hills", was proclaimed as a Town Reserve, as a watering place for Rockhampton on 30 April 1868, for many years access to it was difficult, the first road with culverts being built in 1878.

It suffered in its rivalry with Emu Park (declared a Town Reserve on 9 January 1869), where land was taken up by influential Rockhampton businessmen and squatters from further west who built holiday houses there.

The first land sale was held on 4 August 1873 when P. F. McDonald, the pastoralist and investor bought 15 of the 17 blocks sold, and local selectors two.

Yeppoon town site lay in a hollow between steep hills, below the line of dunes, and in wet weather it was swampy.

The only large enterprise was the Yeppoon Sugar Plantation, which in its twenty years of existence was handicapped by the lack of roads and rail.

It is one of the few surviving seaside stations; others including Pialba, Urangan, Cleveland, Southport, Tweed Heads and Coolangatta have been demolished.

In addition to seaside passengers, the railway also served the Lakes Creek Meatworks and gold mining at Cawarral and New Zealand Gully.

The extension to Yeppoon was approved, and the first section of five kilometres from Sleipner (New Zealand Gully) to Mount Chalmers was opened in November 1908 to transport workers, supplies and metal.

Betty Cosgrove has written: "very few working class people went to Yeppoon until the 20th century", but it became more popular than Emu Park with an ambience more tolerant and welcoming.

On flat land on the edge of the town it allowed the loading of produce including cattle which could be yarded on the western end of the complex.

During the most fearful period of World War 2, when a Japanese invasion seemed imminent, St Faiths School was evacuated to Barcaldine in February 1942, with girls, beds, desks, pianos and boxes of books sent west by rail.

On Sunday 20 September 1942 all seaside trains out of Rockhampton were cancelled, as lines and rolling stock had to be available for transport of the troops who were then moving out to New Guinea.

After World War 2 car ownership became widespread, the Rockhampton-Yeppoon road improved and passenger travel on the railway fell.

Up until the 1970s the lack of an all weather sealed road over the Drummond Range to ensured that the railway line remained the best method of holiday transport from the west to Yeppoon which had gained the unofficial title of "rouseabout's Bondi".

[1] In 2004, Queensland Rail announced that pineapple traffic would be put onto road transport and the Yeppoon line would be closed and dismantled.

[1][4] In March 2022, the Livingstone Shire Council announced it would be building an outdoor undercover area with landscaping and parkingin the railway precinct.

[1] The passenger station is a long gable-roofed chamferboard building with a corrugated galvanised iron roof with square "fascia" gutters.

Concrete steps lead up to doorways, a small timber landing is situated adjacent to a boarded up window of the ticket and freight office.

The platform on which the station building sits is concrete edged and is of compacted soil topped with blue metal gravel and is furnished with a single timber bench seat bearing the word "YEPPOON" in black letters.

[1] The ticket and freight office, located at the western end of the building is a large rectangular space with walls and ceiling lined with tongue and groove boards.

[1] The former waiting room is adjacent to the ticket and freight office and is enclosed to the platform side by timber battens with a door offset to the eastern end.