 The town had a spurt of growth in the years immediately after the railway station opened.By 1903, Bogan Gate had a public school with 67 students, a police station, post office, sawmill, general store, butcher, baker, blacksmith and two hotels; the Bogan Gate Hotel (built 1899), which had 17 rooms, and the Railway Hotel.Bogan Gate had a population of 300 when the Shire of Goobang came into existence in 1906.