The Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway built a line through Market Bosworth in 1873. The station and the station house were built on the Down side of the track, a mile outside the town. Sadly its years as a passenger station were limited and lasted less than fifty years. There are no station masters listed after 1925 although the station was still open. In 1931, it closed to passenger traffic with the building being used for Goods offices. During the World War 2, the army used the station and goods yards as a petrol distribution depot. The goods yard closed in 1968 and, since that time, a motor engineer has used the cookhouse extension, built by the army. The last excursion to use the station was in 1962 but the Shakerstone Railway Society has used the Up platform, until the early 1990s, as their terminus.