In the late 1870s two Birmingham businessmen opened a quarry at Cliffe Hill to provide street setts and kerb stones.

The route to Bagworth Station would have required heavy gradients and passed over land owned by Mr. Breedon Everard, who was hostile to the notion of a railway.

So the decision was made to build the line south from the quarry to a transshipment point at Beveridge Lane, near Bardon Hill station.

Construction started on the line in early 1896 and by the end of the year the first steam locomotive had been delivered and was at work.

The railway served its purpose for more than fifty years, employing a wide range of locomotives to move the granite trains.