The only passenger services using the line are the daily NSW TrainLink XPT on the standard gauge line, and occasional broad gauge V/Line services during disruptions of the main line though Essendon.
Long distance Traveltrain services depart for destinations within Queensland as well as a daily interstate NSW TrainLink XPT service to Sydney.
With the National Party having lost a number of North Coast seats in the 1990 Federal election in a policy reversal it was announced that Xplorer railcars would be purchased to extend the Northern Tablelands Express with an XPT to be released to operate a daily service to Grafton.
The town is served by the daily NSW TrainLink XPT service that operates between Sydney Central station and Melbourne Southern Cross Station.
The only passenger services using the line operate on the standard gauge, being the daily NSW TrainLink XPT, the Great Southern Railway operated The Overland and standard gauge Albury-Wodonga V/Line rail service.