The station opened with the line on 15 March 1899, and served the Nottingham suburb of Carrington until 1928.

It served a relatively affluent residential area about a mile to the north of the city centre along the Mansfield Road, and thus was popular with business people, and was built in a deep cutting 154 yards (140 metres) in length between the Sherwood Rise and Mansfield Road Tunnels.

However, by the time the station was opened, the city's horse tram network was already well established and by 1901 the tramlines were converted to electricity.

The street-level buildings continued to be used at various times as businesses, including the "Alldogs Poodle Parlour" and a sweet shop, but have now been demolished.

The cutting has been filled in to street level, and the Clarendon Park regional facility of the Open University now occupies the site, just north of the east end of Gregory Boulevard, between Sherwood Road and Mansfield Road.