It formed part of the Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction Railway's (SMJ) east–west line from Broom to Olney.

The short approach road to the station ran to what is no more than a simple bridle path from what is now the B526 from Northampton to Newport Pagnell.

Passenger services began on 1 December 1892 with four stopping trains a day, but traffic was so poor that this was withdrawn four months later.

The service, which ran from Olney to Towcester, stopping also at Stoke Bruerne, attracted no more than twenty passengers a week and the SMJ incurred a loss of £40.

The line never reopened for traffic though it was used for the storage of old condemned coaches awaiting cutting up; the track was eventually taken up from Towcester to Ravenstone Wood Junction in the late summer of 1964.