The station was built by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway on their Beighton Branch, within sight of the northern portal of Spinkhill Tunnel.

It opened in 1898 and closed to regular timetabled passenger traffic in 1939, though start and end of term special trains for pupils at the nearby Mount St Mary's College[3] continued for some years thereafter.

This involved using the former running lines and the sidings behind the station house.

The track through the station site and tunnel was lifted after the closure of the line when the colliery closed.

This article on a railway station in the East Midlands is a stub.