The station was situated on Featherstall Road South, in the Werneth area of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.

Opened on 31 March 1842 it was the oldest of the six railway stations that at one time existed in Oldham.

The station was built originally to serve the Platt Bros. of Oldham, a huge cotton spinning engineering company, who had their headquarters in Werneth.

It approached Werneth station from the Manchester direction on a separate two track formation adjacent to the Incline.

There was a flat junction between the two lines just beyond Werneth Signal Box and close to the platform ends of the station.