It was located on the Great Western Railway branch line linking Pontrilas and Hay-on-Wye.

Opened by the Golden Valley Railway in 1881, the station closed and reopened three times in the next twenty years.

Just south before the station, via a level crossing, was the railway access point for the MoD's Elm Bridge Munitions Depot.

In 1901, traces of the Roman road which passed from Wroxeter to Abergavenny were found at the station.

This article on a railway station in the West Midlands region is a stub.