There is a shelter on each platform, with a telephone and a help point for contact with Customer Services and British Transport Police on Platform 1 (eastbound); train running information is also provided by timetable posters on each side.

When the line was again moved to a new alignment to cross the river by the present "King George V" bridge a new station was opened which is still in use.

It replaced two earlier stations, Althorpe and Gunness & Burringham, which had been about half a mile apart.

[2] The station which now bears the name, became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways.Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Northern Trains ran an hourly service Monday-Saturday in both direction calling here between Doncaster and Scunthorpe.