The station opened on 1 February 1861 by the North British Railway.

The station was situated on a gated lane, at a former level crossing and west of Lanehead.

A map from 1866 shows that the station had a siding and a goods dock but in the 1898 edition of the map, the siding was gone and the 1904 Railway Clearing House Handbook showed that the station never handled goods traffic.

By 1974 the platform had gone and the level crossing gates were replaced shortly after.

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