 The station was one of the standard island platform design typical of the London Extension, and here it was the more common "cutting" type reached from a roadway (the Banbury to Daventry road, now classified A361, formerly the B4036), that crossed the line.Just to the south were Charwelton Watertroughs, while to the north is the Catesby Tunnel.In May 1905 the Duchess of Albany visited her lady-in-waiting, Lady Knightley, at Fawsley Hall.