Developed jointly by the GWR and the LNWR, it was originally a through station on their Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway.

The GWR then took over two independently financed and developed branch lines, creating a busy junction station: Both branches were closed to passenger traffic by British Railways in the 1950s; services to Worcester ended in 1952 and to Kington in 1955.

The station has a ticket office on platform 1, which is staffed on a part-time basis on weekdays only (06:55 – 13:25).

Platform 2 has a shelter, with customer help points, digital information displays and automatic announcements provided to offer train running details on both sides.

[1] Leominster has the following general Monday-Saturday off-peak service, with all trains operated by Transport for Wales:[2] On Sundays, there is also an hourly service each way from mid-morning; this include a departure northbound to Chester and Holyhead in the late afternoon.