The station was on Hillmorton Road, roughly half a mile east of the town centre.

Until the early 1960s, the station was served by about six London – Manchester expresses daily, and was the terminus for local services from Aylesbury or Woodford Halse to the south, and Leicester Central or Nottingham Victoria from the north.

On that date, the line south of Rugby Central and north of Nottingham Victoria was closed.

[4] The booking office was at street level, built onto the side of the road bridge over the railway with the platform below.

The trackbed runs mostly through cuttings, and it is now used as a footpath, cycleway and nature reserve called the Great Central Walk.