[2] It was listed as being a small (or minor) station in the original Midland Railway plans.

[8] The main station building is made of red sandstone with a slate roof, is privately owned & occupied and is now a grade II listed structure.

[10] The first station master John Lambert was arrested in 1877 on a charge of conspiring with Edwin Westerman, superintendent of the permanent way, Thomas Errick, inspector of the permanent way, and George Mason Tickle, brick manufacturer, in the theft of 4,000 bricks, the property of the Midland Railway Company.

John Lambert was allowed by the Midland Railway to combine his position as stationmaster at Cumwhinton with that of coal merchant.

[12] The jury found that the station master, who had been guilty of irregularities, had not they thought committed a punishable offence and he was discharged.