The station was intended to serve the town of Kimry, with which Savyolovo eventually merged, on the opposite bank of the river.

The railway was intended to link Savyolovo with Moscow, via the city of Dmitrov, at that time the only large settlement along the route.

Despite the small passenger potential, the line was intended to transport goods transhipped from the Volga at Savyolovo for delivery to Moscow.

[2] The new line reached Savyolovo in 1900, and the station was equipped with a water tower to supply locomotives making the journey.

[2] It was one of the quieter routes of the Russian Empire and early Soviet Union, and was referenced as such in Ilf and Petrov's 1928 work The Twelve Chairs, "The smallest number of people arrive in Moscow through Savelovsky.