It opened on 1 May 1890 and served the village of Bainton.

The station, which was 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village of Bainton was opened by the Scarborough Bridlington and West Riding Junction Railway in May 1890.

[1] It was then run by the North Eastern Railway, and became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923.

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

This article on a railway station in Yorkshire and the Humber is a stub.