It was opened as part of the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway.

This point was the south curve of the triangular junction which it built when it, instead, extended to New Mills.

Long enough only for one carriage, for many years it was the smallest passenger station on British Railways.

The halt was for the railway workers who lived in the eight still-occupied terraced cottages nearby in the valley.

Today, Blackwell Mill marks the northern end of the Monsal Trail, a shared-use path from Bakewell, which follows the former trackbed of the Midland Railway.