It is located along the Nordland Line and the station serves the Sparbu and Mære areas of the municipality.

The unstaffed station is only served by the Trøndelag Commuter Rail service between Steinkjer and Trondheim, and is located near the E6 highway.

Construction costs for the station were 68,753 kr and plans were drawn by Paul Armin Due.

But the chief engineer of the project would not recommend either of the suggestions since they would be up to 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) longer, cost up to 30,000 kr more money, and go through more hilly terrain.

But by the time it had reached the Storting (legislature), an alternative to replace the two stations with one at Mære was chosen, and on 5 June 1900 the Storting voted to only build one station in Sparbu, located at Mære.