The station was opened on 1 June 1855 by the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway four years after line had received parliamentary consent to be constructed.

The station then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The line going north to Rotherwas Junction and Hereford Station closed when passenger service were withdrawn in 1964.

[1] The brick built station building has been demolished and the site redeveloped into an industrial estate.

The Severn Valley Railway station at Kidderminster Town is based on the design for Ross-on-Wye even down to the decorative cast roof crestings; the patterns for which were derived from measurement of segments of the original ones.