The station opened on 17 June 1847 by the York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway.

[1] It was resited in 1875 and the first station remained open for goods traffic until 1964.

[4] The second station opened on 1 April 1875 and closed for passengers on 25 September 1950.

[9] The 1904 Handbook of stations, lists Boroughbridge as having a 5-tonne (5.5-ton) crane, and being able to handle most types of goods traffic.

[10] Typical freight traffic handled at Boroughbridge included cleaning products and sugar beet outbound, and coal, animal feed and oil inbound.