It served villages scattered over a wide area of South Yorkshire, England, and was adjacent to the bridge over the Huddersfield Road.

[3] The original station was closed in a cost-cutting measure, along with Dukinfield Dog Lane.

[4][2] It was reopened at the start of August 1850, and renamed Hazlehead Bridge on 1 November that year;[5][2] Bradshaw's Railway Guide continued to use the old name for a few months, but only on the table dealing with down trains (i.e. towards Manchester).

[6] The station was built in stone with the main buildings on the Sheffield-bound (Up) platform and a waiting shelter on the other.

A high signal box of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's early type, almost square with hipped roof, controlled the station and the entry to the branch line which served the Hepworth Iron Company's works at Crow Edge.