It wasn't the first station to serve the town however, as one had been opened by the NER in 1862 as the terminus of its Lanchester Valley Railway from Durham.

[1] This lasted only five years however, the LVR was extended northwards to Newcastle via Lintz Green & Scotswood and a new station was opened at Benfieldside on the northern edge of the town.

Facilities were quite basic, with wooden buildings in the middle of the island platform linked via a sloping path to the road overbridge at the eastern end.

Goods traffic continued to be handled at Consett until 2 October 1967, The ex-S&T line through the station latterly remained in use to serve the nearby steelworks until they closed in September 1980 and then subsequently for the demolition trains used to clear the site.

[1] However, in June 2020, MP for North West Durham, Richard Holden, sponsored a bid to the Ideas Fund of the Department for Transport's Restoring Your Railway Fund, hoping to access up to £50,000 to cover the cost of an initial study into the feasibility of restoring a rail link[4] between Consett and Blaydon.