[1] The route is additionally sometimes used as a means of diverting trains when engineering takes place between Birmingham New Street and Tamworth.

The station retains its signal box, which supervises the adjacent level crossing and the partly single track section to Wychnor Junction.

It also acts as a signalling "fringe" box to the East Midlands Rail Operating Centre at Derby.

[2] In a document by Transport for West Midlands it was proposed that the station could potentially reopen to passengers in the future.

[3] In October 2018, as part of a 30-year strategy of Transport in the West Midlands, it was proposed that by 2034 Alrewas could reopen to passengers as part of plans to extend the Cross-City line services from Lichfield Trent Valley to Burton-on-Trent twice an hour,[4] as well as the reintroducing services to Walsall via the mothballed South Staffordshire Line.