On 10 October 1895 a fire started in the refreshment rooms and burnt down the station, but just 6 days later authority was given for a new station. By 1896 Te Aute had a 5th class station, platform, cart approach, loading bank, cattle and sheep yards, fixed signals, stationmaster's house, urinals and a passing loop for 36 wagons. In 1912 an automatic tablet exchanger was added. Railway houses were built in 1926, 1934, 1938 and 1948. In the 1931 earthquake the station was described as badly wrecked. Electric lighting came in 1940.