The line reached Oxford (Tīrau) on 8 March 1886 and Putaruru and Lichfield, 5 miles (8 km) further south-east, on 21 June 1886. In 1889 the Putaruru-Rotorua section was begun, and was completed on 8 December 1894. The station had a refreshment room and a bookstall and the railway yard had a turntable and handled much livestock, as well as timber. In the 1920s a Railway Board investigated the feasibility of a line of about to Arapuni and Te Awamutu. The station closed to passengers on 12 November 1968 and freight on 10 December 2002, though it was served by the Geyserland Express from 1991 to 2001.