The station was once an intermediate stop on the Northampton-Market Harborough railway line, which closed in 1981.

However, the Earl Spencer wanted the station to be built at the point where the road between Chapel Brampton and Pitsford crossed the line.

The railway company were reluctant to do this as the line was in a cutting at this point and the road was very poor.

A special dock was built for loading sugar beet wagons, a very important local crop at one time.

[2] Portable buildings make up the present station, with the exception of the booking office which is the top half of the Lamport signal box and the station signal box which was moved from Little Bowden Crossing, near Market Harborough.