The original Brandon station was built by the London and Birmingham Railway and was the only one between Coventry and Rugby.

There was a fairly substantial timber-built booking office on the up platform, and a footbridge, as was required by the Inspector of Railways for stations built at that late date.

The LNWR provided only five trains a day in each direction, less than a third for stations at that time and in that area.

By 1938 the LMS was providing about a dozen trains a day but this trade virtually disappeared after the war.

The signal cabin which had survived, possibly since 1879, was closed when Rugby power box was opened in September 1964.