The station is located on the Midland Main Line between Leicester and Loughborough, 108 miles 52 chains (174.9 km) north of St Pancras.

Neither station, in fact, was ideally located for Quorn, being about equidistant from its centre.

[citation needed] Barrow was the only station on the line to retain much of its original MCR architecture.

[2] A new station was opened slightly to the southeast of the original site on 27 May 1994, as part of phase one of the Ivanhoe Line.

[citation needed] In August 2016, a road bridge by the station partially collapsed during maintenance work, severely disrupting train services.