The station served the villages of Upton and North Elmsall, (both now in the Wakefield District of West Yorkshire).

The station closed completely in 1959 and the track was lifted in 1967, however, in 2020, a proposal was forwarded to reinstate over 2 miles (3.2 km) of line for a new heritage railway.

[3] Bradshaw's timetable from 1906 has seven workings in each direction daily,[4] whereas by 1922, just two services are shown running between Cudworth and Hull Cannon Street.

[7] Closure of the station to goods came in 1959, but the line from the western portal of Barnsdale Tunnel to Cudworth, remained open for colliery traffic until 7 August 1967.

[9] In June 2020, a proposal was put forward to revamp the site and use it as a heritage railway centre.