The station was between Brooklyn Road and Claudelands Road,[1] 1.23 km (0.76 mi) east of the old Hamilton station (1879–1969) and 3.94 km (2.45 mi) west of Ruakura[2] (1884–1967).

[3] Claudelands had a railway station from 1 October 1884 to 2 June 1991,[3] named Hamilton East until 1 March 1899,[4] and then Kirikiriroa until 1 February 1914,[5] when it was changed to Claudelands after a petition.

[7] In 1912, the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce applied for a porter to be employed there,[8] which was approved in 1913, when it became a tablet station[9] and the yard was extended,[10] after a lengthy residents' campaign.

[7] In 2020 double tracking, and potentially reopening the station for events, were put forward as part of a $150m scheme to relay tracks to Cambridge.

[16] The scheme was proposed as part of efforts to help the area recover from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.