Wormald Green station opened with the southern section of the Leeds and Thirsk Railway on 1st June 1848. It was provided with two platforms; the single storey booking office and waiting room was sited on the up platform with a two storey stationmaster's house at the south end of the building. There was a timber waiting shelter on the down platform. 

A signal box was sited on the down side, on the north side of the level crossing; this controlled the crossing and access to the goods yard. There was one siding behind the up platform with a further three sidings and a 5-ton crane on the up side, north of the level crossing: two of the sidings served the coal depot. Pepper's Lime Quarry had a private siding. There were further sidings to the north of the station on the up side serving Monkton Moor quarries.

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Fatal accident 1st. June 1853.

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A derailment due to the leading tender wheel fracturing at speed. The inspector was highly critical of the practice of running tender first at speeds approaching 40 mph. The Inspector's report concluded that

 

"The train to which the accident occurred is timed to leave Knaresborough for Ripon at 7.30 A.M. On arriving at a point about one mile and a half beyond Wormald Green, the tyre of the right hand leading wheel of the engine broke. The driver immediately caused his break to be applied, and reversed the engine; but seeing that the carriages were running in upon the engine, he released the break to allow it to go forward again, The van next the engine, in which the guard had been riding, was upset, and the guard was killed".
I was informed that the engine usually travels from Ripon towards High Harrogate and York tender foremost. Now this speed appears to me to be scarcely compatible with safe working, if the tender is run in front of the engine."

In 1853, the station had a staff of two, stationmaster W. B. Malloric earning £50 per annum and porter M. Hardcastle earning 12/- per week.

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21st. August 1872. Collision.

The report on a collision between a passenger train and a goods train shunting clear. The Inspector's report concluded that:-

"In this case the 3.0 p.m. passenger train from Ripon for Leeds came into collision, whilst passing through the Wormald Green station, with No. 49 up goods train, 3.0 p.m. from West Hartlepool for Leeds, which was in the act of shunting at the station to get out of its way".
Twenty-one passengers complained of injury. The head-guard was thrown down in his van and was slightly shaken. The under-guard, seeing what was coming, put the break on; and, lying down in his van, escaped being hurt."

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In 1911 the station had a catchment area with a population of 1,826.

14,944 tickets were sold that year, and the main freight handled was barley, with 155 tons being dispatched. 128 wagons of livestock were also loaded at the station.

Like other stations on the line, in later years Wormald Green had more southbound stopping trains than northbound. In 1956 the station had three southbound trains but only one northbound. This was a reduction from 1952 when there were 4 southbound trains and 3 northbound.

After closure to passengers on 18th June 1962, the station remained open for goods traffic, but was downgraded to an unstaffed public delivery siding until final closure on 31st August 1964.