The station was opened by the Great Central Railway in 1913 a later addition to the branch line from Goxhill to Immingham Dock, near both the former seaplane base at RNAS Killingholme and the Admiralty oil terminal at North Killingholme Haven.

[5][6][7] These were still intact when a RCTS Special called four years after closure on 7 October 1967.

When the line and station opened the area was rural and thinly populated.

By 2015 the area round the former station had become industrial but remained thinly populated.

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