The station was built by the Great Northern Railway in 1886, 2 miles (3.2 km) away from the village of Wilsden.

[2] It was closer to the small hamlet of Harecroft, West Yorkshire, England.

The station had two platforms and a large goods shed.

It was the last station to open on the Queensbury-Keighley section of the line.

This article on a railway station in Yorkshire and the Humber is a stub.