It is a public railway station, originally part of the standard gauge network, and now part of the narrow gauge Wells and Walsingham Light Railway.

It was opened on 1 February 1924 [1] by the London and North Eastern Railway and operated by them until rail nationalisation.

It closed on 5 October 1964[2] as part of the Beeching cuts on the British railway network.

In 1979 construction work began to reopen four miles of the disused railway line between Wells and Walsingham.

Although it is a request stop, the "halt" suffix does not appear on the station name boards or on timetables.