[4] The station is located at kilometre point 58.1 of the Iberian gauge railway line Medina del Campo-Vilar Formoso,[5] at an altitude of 776 metres above sea level.

The section between La Fuente de San Esteban and Barca d'Alva was opened to traffic on 8 December 1887,[8] which turned the station into a railway junction.

As a consequence of its strategic position, La Fuente de San Esteban-Boadilla station had an important railway traffic and became a stop for international trains.

Such trains, like the Sud Express,[n. 1] ran the Paris-Lisbon route via Salamanca and La Fuente de San Esteban without ever passing through Madrid.

[10] In 1928 the facilities passed into the hands of the Compañía Nacional de los Ferrocarriles del Oeste, a situation that continued until 1941, after the nationalisation of all the Iberian gauge railways, when they were transferred to the recently created RENFE.