The station served the United Dairies cheese factory and the village of Sturminster Marshall but was named after a local farm to avoid confusion with another station on the same railway at Sturminster Newton.

The station had extensive sidings and was one of the largest depots for transporting milk on the UK railway system.

Milk was carried in tanker wagons from Bailey Gate to London and was a major source of revenue for the railway.

Access to the station from the west was via a small path that ran down from the slope of the bridge, which took the user to the up platform where, to gain access to the station buildings, one had to cross the railway lines via a small wooden crossing next to the bridge.

Track was finally lifted in 1969, as the railway remained open until the closure of the goods terminal at Blandford that year.