Adjacent to the station is a manually operated gated crossing on the single-track Wensleydale Railway.

The station was opened as Finghall Lane by the Bedale and Leyburn Railway on 19 May 1856.

[1][2] The station was used in the 1970s and 1980s by the BBC Television series All Creatures Great and Small, renamed as "Rainby Halt" for the show,[3] with the signboard advising passengers bound for Darrowby to "alight here"; no passenger trains called at the station during that time.

The station was reopened by the Wensleydale Railway on 23 December 2004[4] after being closed for half a century.

[4] Only two or three out of the ten trains a day actually halt at Finghall, and often this is just to ensure good timekeeping.