The station was built by the Old Colony Railroad at a cost $1,200.

[2] In 1919 the building was used in the filming of the now-lost silent film Anne of Green Gables, starring Mary Miles Minter.

[3] By the 1920s improvements in local highways led to reduced service on the Stoughton Branch, with both Springdale and West Stoughton in danger of being closed.

[4] They and other low-traffic stations were further endangered by the New Haven's 1935 bankruptcy.

By the late 1930s service at Springdale was done to four weekday trains per day, handling a total of eleven passengers.