From its opening the station was named Eckington and Renishaw, but it was renamed "Renishaw Central" in 1950 by British Railways to prevent confusion with the nearby ex-Midland Railway station, also called Eckington and Renishaw.

The station was on the Great Central Main Line which ran between London Marylebone and Manchester Piccadilly via Sheffield Victoria.

[3] The station was the junction for a Great Central branch to Renishaw Ironworks.

The station has been demolished,[4] but the trackbed forms part of the Central Section of the Trans Pennine Trail.

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