When Wetherby's original station on York Road closed in 1902, for two decades the only rail access was via Wetherby's new station on Linton Road.

There was therefore a station built at Wetherby Racecourse in 1924, with a ticket booth of wooden construction, starter signals, a ground frame and a footbridge.

[4] Race specials would stop at this 'Racecourse station', about three quarters of a mile from Linton Road towards Thorp Arch.

These specials came from Leeds, Doncaster and Bradford Exchange and Sheffield.

[5] Reports vary as to when it closed; one report says it stayed open until 1963 with Racecourse Specials running to the station from Bradford Exchange on racedays,[6] whilst another publication states that it was last used on Whit Monday 18 May 1959 and was demolished in 1962.