[1] The branch line was opened to freight traffic in August 1875 with passenger services starting a year later.

The Sharpness branch became a through-route from 1879 with the opening of the Severn Railway Bridge, connecting Sharpness with the Forest of Dean side of the Severn Estuary and enabling through services between Berkeley Road and Lydney Town railway station, some of which ran on to Lydbrook.

Through-services to Lydney on the line ceased abruptly in October 1960 when the Severn Railway Bridge was damaged beyond economic repair in a shipping accident.

The station closed on 2 November 1964,[3] when passenger services ceased on the Sharpness branch; goods facilities were withdrawn two years later.

The track through the site remains as the Sharpness docks link is still open for very occasional freight services.