The station was opened on 13 September 1852 by the London and North Western Railway.
It closed to passengers as a wartime economy measure on 15 April 1917 but never reopened.
Bradshaw showed that the service was suspended instead of closed.
[1] The station remained open for goods traffic until 1962[2] or 1963.
This article on a railway station in Yorkshire and the Humber is a stub.