It was opened by the Great Northern Railway on its Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension in 1875–6.

It was situated on a down grade between Kimberley East railway station and the crossing of the Erewash Valley, which it crossed by means of the impressive Bennerley Viaduct which has been partly preserved.

Nearby was Awsworth Junction where a branch led north towards Eastwood and Langley Mill and Pinxton[1] crossing the impressive Giltbrook Viaduct known locally as "Forty Bridges".

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

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