It is situated to the east of the town centre and lies on the Midland Main Line, 16 miles (26 km) south-east of Leicester.

As traffic built up, the Midland opened a new line on 26 June 1885 at a higher elevation, crossing the LNWR and then running parallel to a new joint station in the present position.

Such was the volume of traffic, a junction for five different directions at its height, by 1870 plans for an engine shed were released in addition to the already provided loco pit, turntable and water tank.

The Midland line continues, with the platform buildings and canopies replaced with modern designs in the sixties.

Market Harborough is served by the fast and semi-fast East Midlands Railway Class 222 "Meridian" services.

[20] These plans were fought against by the Harborough Rail Users' Group, and, as a result, the final specification saw no reduction in services.

The Market Harborough Line Speed Improvement project will deliver: The railway through Leicestershire is not electrified and therefore all services are operated by diesel trains.

[27] However, in February 2019 Andrew Jones, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, announced that electrification would be extended northwards from Kettering up to Market Harborough, enabling the connection of the railway to a new power supply point at Braybrooke.