It is arguable that Stoke Bruern along with Salcey Forest have a claim to have had the shortest passenger service of any British railway station.

The station opened in 1892[1] in a thinly populated area on the western side of Stoke Road near the Northamptonshire village of Stoke Bruerne, not far from the southern portal of Blisworth Hill Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal over which ran the Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction Railway's (STMJ) east–west line from Broom to Olney.

[4] Passenger services began with four stopping trains a day, but traffic was so poor that this was withdrawn four months later.

[5] The line closed "temporarily" in May 1958 to enable a bridge to be built for the M1 motorway to cross the line which never reopened to traffic (banana trains from Avonmouth Docks to Somerstown Goods) and was thereafter used to store condemned carriages until the track was eventually taken up in the late Summer of 1964.

[2] The single loop goods siding remained in use for the storage of condemned wagons until the closure of the section of the line between Woodford West junction and Blisworth in February 1964.