Balzan probably opened with the line in 1883 but did not appear on any early engineering drawings, suggesting it was a late afterthought or perhaps an addition shortly after the railway’s inauguration. Most plans allow for a single station between Birkirkara and Attard, that eventually manifested as two separate halts. Like other intermediate stations it was equipped with a small station building, probably one of the standard type, and a platform around 25ft in length on the south side of the railway line where it crossed modern Triq San Frangisk. Roughly 500 yards from the centre of the village, many residents would have found San Antonio station more convenient to walk to. This was perhaps why average daily passenger numbers recorded stopping there were just 8.6. These were grounds in June 1900 for the temporary closure of the station as a measure to speed up journeys and cut-down on uncomfortable and jarring stops and starts of the trains before new carriage buffers could be installed.