[3] The station opened in 1850 on the Rugby and Stamford Railway and was originally named Medbourne Bridge.

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

Extensive sidings were opened in 1904 to handle the amount of coal coming from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

The station building survives today as a private residence.

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