The station served the communities of Darnall, Attercliffe and Carbrook and was one of those opened on 1 August 1864[1] with the South Yorkshire Railway's extension south from Tinsley Junction to Woodburn Junction where it met the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR).

This link allowed the MS&LR access to Barnsley and Rotherham from Sheffield Victoria.

The station, with its main access by steps from Broughton Lane bridge, possessed two flanking platforms although was surrounded by sidings.

In the 1960s a new line was built from near Broughton Lane into the newly opened Tinsley Marshalling Yard and shortly afterwards this was electrified.

The site of the station is below the new Greenland Road viaduct over the line and canal near the foundations of the old bridge.