It was opened in 1848, and was located on the Midland Railway's Mansfield Branch Line (Now the Robin Hood Line).

The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, the station survived use until 1965.

The Robin Hood Line was revived in the 1990s following the closure of the Mansfield Railway through the town and the freight-only route was then reused.

Nothing remains of the station site as it has been redeveloped including the trackbed.

The line was diverted onto the alignment of the former Great Northern Railway to the new Kirkby-in-Ashfield station.