Opened on 1 July 1873 the station was situated on the East and West Junction Railway route from Stratford-upon-Avon to Fenny Compton.

The LMS found it a useful link between its Bristol and London routes in competition with GWR goods traffic to the Capital.

[1][page needed] In common with normal single line working, tokens would be exchanged at the signal boxes associated with each station loop.

In 1911 the facility was added to switch Ettington box out during the night, and work with one long block - a novel system at that time.

The station closed on 7 April 1952[2][page needed] although through traffic continued to gain access to the Great Western Railway until 5 July 1965.