its platform was moved to a cutting from 1 september 1964. it lost its railcar service to te puke on 11 september 1967 and to rotorua on 11 november 1968. it then lost its station building, which is now a café at waikato university. by the mid 1970s most of the station had been covered by carparks, which were later covered by the centre place shopping centre. when the current hamilton station opened on 6 august 1975, the rarely-used platform was renamed hamilton travel centre.