An earlier station to serve the village had been opened by the Great Northern Railway on the line between Lincoln and Gainsborough, situated at the end of Ferry Lane.

[2][3] This second station was opened in March 1897 by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway on its main line from Chesterfield to Lincoln.

[4] It was closed by British Railways in 1955,[5] though freight and passenger trains continued to pass through for some years after that.

Only two LD&ECR stations had a level crossing, Skellingthorpe and Bolsover South.

Today the trackbed eastwards from the site of Fledborough Station, across Fledborough Viaduct, through Clifton-on-Trent to Doddington and Harby forms an off-road part of National Cycle Route 647 which is part of the National Cycle Network.