 Forty men were assigned to complete the contract over the following year.A series of excursion trips were organised for 1 February 1897 to mark the occasion of trains being able to travel through the tunnel.Because the contracts that had been let thus far terminated just beyond the tunnel, a temporary station was established there, but it was obvious to all concerned that the line would need to be extended to a commercially useful centre beyond this point for the section beyond Belgrove to be viable.