Becoming part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923, it passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and was then closed by the British Transport Commission with the withdrawal of passenger services on 9 January 1956.

[2] The station was reopened as part of the Airdrie–Bathgate rail link,[5] a project created to enable Glasgow and Edinburgh to be linked via a fourth route by reopening the railway between Airdrie and Bathgate.

The very severe winter weather of November and December 2010 delayed completion of construction work, and the station was initially served by a replacement bus service.

The station has a half-hourly off-peak service Mondays to Sundays, westbound to Airdrie, Queen St Low Level and Milngavie and eastbound to Bathgate and Edinburgh Waverley.

In the evenings and on Sundays the westbound terminus is Helensburgh Central rather than Milngavie.