The station was once an intermediate stop on the Northampton–Market Harborough line, which closed in 1981.
The preservation society which operates the line has a Light Railway Order up to and including Spratton, and it is likely a station will be rebuilt there in the future.
The original signal box has been preserved and is stored awaiting re-use.
The branch line from Northampton to Market Harborough was opened by the London and North Western Railway on 16 February 1859.
This article on a railway station in the East Midlands is a stub.