 Passenger services from Nyora to Wonthaggi were withdrawn on 4 December 1977 with the last train being a 153hp Walker railmotor.By this time the general decline of Victorian branch line network saw services being withdrawn from a number of lines, and the Wonthaggi line closed on 21 November 1978 when a final goods train returned to Melbourne with staff equipment from stations along the line.The track was dismantled in 1988 and the southern section from Anderson to Wonthaggi has been developed as the Bass Coast Rail Trail.