The station opened on 27 July 1849 by the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway.
Initially, there were four sidings to the northeast as well as a coal and lime depot.
One of the sidings served a goods shed which was behind the station.
A signal box opened in the 1880s but it was replaced in 1912 with a new one on the downside.
The engine shed closed in 1916 as a wartime economy measure but it wasn't demolished until the 1960s.