The Rother Valley Railway opened a small platform at Junction Road in 1900[1] as an informal private stopping place for the benefit of the tenant of the adjoining fields who enjoyed shooting rights over the land.

The existence of the platform was discovered by the Board of Trade in January 1903 during an inspection of the line by Major Pringle who had stopped at the site to examine the new cattle grids.

[4] After the inspection, Colonel Stephens, the proprietor of the Rother Valley Railway, wrote to the Board of Trade to obtain permission to open the halt to the public.

[5] The Board of Trade indicated its willingness to authorise the halt so long as the railway provided suitable lights for trains calling in the hours of darkness.

[10][12] Junction Road, which was convenient for the Guinness hop farm,[13] saw substantial passenger traffic during the hop-picking season, and this may have contributed towards the decision to renew the platform in 1948.

[18] The last publicly advertised service to pass through the station was a seven-carriage Locomotive Club of Great Britain special, worked by LB&SCR A1 class Nos.

The Rother Valley Railway, a preservation group set up in 1991, had by March 2009 laid track from Bodiam to within 200 yards (180 m) of the site of Junction Road Halt at a cost of £200,000.

[25] A new owner of Udiam Farm, whose land incorporates the original railway alignment, agreed for the line to be reinstated through his garden along its historic route.