The original station can handle 7,000 travellers a day, as part of the infrastructure build up to Expo 2017 a new station, Astana-Nurly Zhol, is located near Mynzhyldyk Alley with a new capacity of 12,000.

Around half of the train services serving Astana call at Astana-1.

Most of these are "through" services as the newer Astana Nurly Zhol is a terminal station.

Almost all Talgo services that serve Astana no longer serve Astana-1, but many long distance and commuter services remain at the station.

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