 The Koondrook branch line, built and operated by the Shire of Kerang, was opened in 1886.It was acquired by the Victorian Railways in 1952 and closed in 1981.Under the 1922 Border Railways Act, a branch opened from Kerang to Murrabit in 1924, which was extended across the New South Wales border at the Murray River to Stony Crossing in 1928.