Bishop Auckland West is the eastern terminus of the Weardale Railway, a heritage railway which runs between there and . The station was built by the Weardale Railway and initially opened on 23 May 2010, with a regular passenger service which lasted until the end of the 2012 running season.
Regular heritage trains were reintroduced in 2014, mainly using a Class 122 Bubble Car, initially only running between and , but later extended to on 27 March 2016.
After a short section of track at Broken Banks was lifted and the underlying embankment repaired in early 2018, the line through to Bishop Auckland was made safe for passenger traffic for the first time in a number of years. Thus, from July 2018, two of the three daily return services between Stanhope and Witton-le-Wear have been extended to Bishop Auckland West.
The station is located approximately to the west of the National Rail station. A footpath linking the two stations was completed in August 2022.
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