Ingleton station opened on 31 July 1849[1] as a temporary northern terminus of the "Little" North Western Railway (NWR), who were authorised to build a line from Skipton to Tebay.

[1] The MR reopened the original Ingleton station two weeks later on 1 October 1861,[1] but refused to let LNWR trains use it.

[4] Passengers had to walk nearly a mile (1½ km) between the two Ingleton stations, descending into the valley below and climbing up the other side, where they often had a long wait as the companies did not cooperate over timetabling either.

[6] The presence of the Midland station played a major role in the success of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail which opened in 1885 and attracted visitors from Bradford, Manchester and Leeds.

[10] The station was demolished and the site is now occupied by Ingleton Community Centre and the village's main car park.

It was built with white sandstone from a Bentham quarry,[15] to designs by the line's engineers, Joseph Locke and John Errington.