[1] The population at the time of opening was just over 3,600, but the station retained healthy outward traffic in the form of timber and livestock.

[5] The station area had a single-road locomotive shed which stabled the one steam engine used on the four daily out and back workings to Ripon.

[8] The station was closed to passengers in January 1931, but continued receiving deliveries of small amounts of goods traffic until 1963.

The issue of the railway being open just to deliver coal to the stationmasters and fresh water to the crossing keeper's cottages was raised in Parliament by the MP for Darlington at that time.

[9][10] The station buildings are now private dwellings and the goods shed has since been converted into a cafe and gallery.