The station was built as a halt for the eastern suburbs of Bath, and named after the street that leads eastwards from Sydney Gardens.

It opened in 1907 for Great Western Railway stopping train services from Bristol, Swindon and Westbury, Wiltshire.

The station has been entirely dismantled, leaving a vacant space between the railway lines and the road or canal embankment.

A section of rail forms a barrier between a turning/parking area at the end of Hampton Row and railway property.

Numbers 9-14 Hampton Row became derelict after Buchanan's Plan for Bath was released in the 1960s, with a new road intended to pass through the site.