Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Opened on the Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway.This was the junction between the Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway and the Eston Iron Mines (Teesside Ironworks).
With expansion of the Cleveland Iron Works the first part of the mineral line was subsumed into the works and the junction moved further west, on an easier curve, to Eston Junction [2nd].