It was opened in 1879, closed in 1965 and subsequently demolished, although the track through the station site is still in use for freight.

The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The station was closed by the British Railways Board in 1965 as part of the Beeching cuts[1] and subsequently demolished.

[2] In February 2021 it was announced that land had been purchased in Aldridge near the site of its former railway station as part of plans led by the then Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street and by Aldridge-Brownhills MP Wendy Morton to reopen at least part of the Sutton Park line.

[3] In June 2022 it was announced that Transport for West Midlands had received £150,000 from the government's Restoring Your Railway program which will fund a business case into reopening the station and electrifying the line.