The station served the Birmingham-Nuneaton-Leicester Line and also the now closed Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway.

It was originally opened on 1 December 1864 by the Midland Railway on their line from Birmingham to Nuneaton.

The station was rebuilt in a slightly different location in 1873 when the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway was opened.

The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.

[2] In 2018 the only remaining remnant of the station was a former waiting room, now within a private garden.