The station, which still stands in Green Township at milepost 57.61 on the Cut-Off, began operations on December 23, 1911, one day before the line itself.

[4] The facility controlled a somewhat elaborate 4-mile (6.4 km) siding with multiple switching points, built to accommodate freight traffic on the railroad's double-track main line.

[5] The Lackawanna vied for Green Township's freight business (mostly related to farming and agriculture), with the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway, which had arrived some three decades earlier.

In anticipation of its 1960 merger with the Erie Railroad, the Lackawanna single-tracked the Cut-Off in 1958, but retained the siding to keep some operational flexibility.

In October 1999, the Sussex County Engineer, Eric Grove, announced that the Green Road (CR 611) bridge next to Greendell station would need to be demolished.