[1] It claims to be Britain's smallest standard-gauge railway station,[2] although it is no longer part of the main rail network.

Damems has the distinction of being a station rather than a halt because in its original form it included a stationmaster's house and a siding to serve the mill in the village.

The stationmaster's house remains, and is owned by the heritage railway, although the siding has been removed.

The level crossing at the station is controlled from a gate box originally from Earby on the Colne-Skipton line.

The last crossing keeper at Damems was Annie Feather who lived in the stationmaster's house and received her wages which were thrown to her from the footplate of a passing locomotive.