The halt was built to serve the mining villages of Hickleton and Thurnscoe, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire and was situated in the centre of Thurnscoe at the point where the line crosses over the main Barnsley road.

The station was situated 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Moorhouse and South Elmsall and consisted of a single wooden platform with a single storey "Double Pavilion" style wooden station building.

The platform surface was of gravel and the station opened on 28 August 1902 and closed, along with the others on the line, on 6 April 1929.

Immediately south of the station was the entrance to Hickleton Main Colliery where the H&B shared sidings with the Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway line.

This article on a railway station in Yorkshire and the Humber is a stub.