The original station opened in 1895 as part of Perak Railways. The original purpose of the station was to transport tin deposits from nearby mines to the Teluk Anson (now
Teluk Intan) wharf southwest of Kampar. The line to Teluk Intan has since been dismantled. The old station is situated on Jalan Degong, where the current Federal Route 70 between Kampar and Teluk Intan lies today. It was later incorporated as part of the
Federated Malay States Railways (FMSR), allowing it to be connected to as far as the network grew to other parts of Malaya back then. In 1923, it was connected up to the border of
Siam (present-day
Thailand) and down to the
Singapore Settlement (present-day
Singapore), forming the main
West Coast Line. As a thriving tin mining town, passenger and goods trains frequently stopped at this station. However, it also experienced grim situations as it was located in the heat of the conflict during the
Malayan Emergency in 1948. Services were always due to frequent derailments by
Communist Party of Malaya (CMP) forces along the railway line nearby. The station building itself has been burnt in an attack by CMP forces in 1952. A temporary building was built to replace the station, which was smaller in size, at the same site. The original site was later taken over by Societé Anonyme des étains de Kinta (S.E.K.), a France mining company for their tin mining activity expansion. As a follow-up, they built a new, proper station 1.5 kilometres away from the original station, and the track was also redirected to the newly-built station. As of 1965, the new building was in full operation, replacing the smaller temporary station that was operating for 12 years. The new station later continued to serve rail services of the FMSR, and later
Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) after
Malaya's independence. However, the station saw a decline of passengers caused by the closure of tin mines in the 1980s, with the town itself facing a decline of residents. The setting up of
Tunku Abdul Rahman University's (UTAR) Kampar campus here in 2007 helped to rejuvenate the purpose of Kampar town, with the station itself seeing an increase of passengers. The current station building was built in 2007, beside the old station, replacing it as part of the Rawang-Ipoh electrification and double tracking project with better facilities and structures to serve electrified railway services. With the opening of the current station building, the old station building has since been abandoned and is not in use despite still retained beside the new building. Up until 2010, the station was served by
KTM Intercity's diesel-locomotive hauled
inter-city railway services. With the commencement of
KTM ETS services in 2010 following the completion of Rawang-Ipoh electrification and double tracking project, Kampar station was made part of its pilot route, running between and . It still served KTM Intercity services up to 2016, when KTM Intercity services were discontinued on the whole electrified sections of the West Coast Line. Today, it is served by two ETS Platinum and three ETS Gold services running between , and stations in the north, and , and stations in the south. == Station features ==