The site of the station was large, serving as the terminus of three different routes - the Derwent Valley line from Scotswood, the Stanhope and Tyne Railway and the Lanchester Valley Railway from Durham; it also had a large goods yard.

The station was closed to passengers on 23 May 1955[1] with the end of services from Newcastle via Annfield Plain.

Services from Durham via Lanchester had ceased back in 1939, whilst the Derwent Valley line from Scotswood followed suit in February 1954.

[2] The former coal yard sidings immediately to the south though remained in use until 1984 by trains accessing the Consett Steel Works complex.

This path, stretching from Consett to Swalwell and running roughly parallel to the A694, forms part of National Cycle Network route 14 and is a northern spur of the C2C Cross Country cycle route.