The line was freight-only, the last passenger local having come off circa 1950.
It was around this time that the local passengers decided to take their chances on foot.
The station was not very convenient for local passengers as the approach road was about five hundred yards long.
Main access to the station for local passengers and mobility impaired customers is by a lower level subway.
Through service ended on the line after the floods caused by the 1938 Hurricane, but local passenger trains continued to run until 1953.
In the 1920s local passenger transportation started to operate.
The service, which has been operating for 103 years, no longer delivers mail but still carries cargo and local passengers.
The passenger service was withdrawn on 3 March 1952 as many of the local passengers having been lost to intensive parallel bus services.
Compared to the same period last year also the local passengers increased by 10.6%.
There was some agricultural traffic, notably milk, and a few local passengers until the bus services became well established.