The station was opened as a public station on 13 June 1955 by
British Railways. It had a siding and a signal box. The purpose of the station was to split the signalling section between and . With a sparse local population, there was little need for a station, so it closed to regular passengers on 9 September 1963. It remained an unadvertised station and was used occasionally until the line was closed in 1965. ==Popular culture==