Parliamentary approval was gained in 1846 by the directors of the London and Birmingham Railway for a branch from Rugby to the Syston and Peterborough Railway near Stamford.
[2] In the same year the company became part of the London and North Western Railway.
The section from Rugby to Market Harborough, which included Lubenham, opened in 1850.
[3] At grouping in 1923 it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway.
This article on a railway station in the East Midlands is a stub.