Dorton Halt was opened on 21 July 1937,[1] being situated between Brill & Ludgershall and Haddenham on the Great Western Railway's Bicester cut-off line,[2] which had opened in 1910.

It was built to serve the villages of Dorton, Wotton, Chilton and Ashendon, which lay in an agricultural district, and together had a population of 650.

[2] There were two platforms, each with a shelter; the station was electrically lit.

[2] The line became part of the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

British Railways closed the station on 7 January 1963.