This was, and is, a very lightly populated district, and at the time of the station's opening there was scarcely another building in sight.

The station's nameboards at the time of its eventual closure read "Milcote for Weston and Welford".

[3] The increase in motor vehicle use led to passengers numbers at this rather isolated station decreasing still further after World War II.

BR withdrew goods facilities from July 1963 and the station was closed to passenger traffic from January 1966.

[4] The trackbed was disused for ten years until 1989 when, in a joint venture between Sustrans and Warwickshire County Council, it was converted to a greenway for cycling and walking.