[2] The line through the station was electrified in 1966 as part of the London Midland Region's electrification programme.

[3] The actual energization[clarification needed] of the line from Coventry to Walsall through Aston took place on 15 August 1966.

On 8 December 1854 a South Staffordshire Railway passenger train from Walsall, hauled by a LNWR engine, struck the corner of a goods waggon, which was projecting from a siding towards the main line.

Access to the station is via Bescot Crescent (where there is a car park) and then a footpath which passes underneath the M6 motorway and over the River Tame, then an overbridge.

London Midland proposed the closure of the ticket office, but this request was overruled in September 2012 by the Transport Minister.