It is located along the Helsinki–Turku railway, and is currently only used as a passing loop; the nearest station with passenger services is Salo in the north.

[2] Ervelä was opened as a laituri (a staffed halt, translating to "platform") on 16 October 1909, from the initiative of a local retail cooperative first made in 1907.

This also prompted the moving of the station building to the northern side of the railway, from its south.

[3] Passenger services in Ervelä were discontinued on 22 May 1977, and the only remaining switch was dismantled in November 1981, which prompted the cessation of the operating point on 1 January 1982.

[3] The station building in Ervelä was constructed in 1909, and is representative of Jugendstil in its architecture.