[5] The station pre-dates the present-day (2015) village of Breich and OS maps show that it has never possessed freight facilities such as loading docks and sidings, etc.

nearby, together with the Levenseat Branch of the North British Railway and the originally 4 ft 6in Scotch gauge Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness line with its old terminus station of Longridge[5] opened in 1845 and closed in 1848.

[6] A ticket office and waiting room was still present in 1962 as shown by the photograph of that date, together with a linesman's brick hut building, both on the Glasgow bound platform.

It has new platforms, two modern style passenger shelters, additional outside seating and electronic travel information displays.

Monday to Saturdays the station was served by one eastbound towards Edinburgh and one westbound train towards Glasgow Central per day.

The station was closed temporarily from 23 June 2018 for 12 weeks during redevelopment as part of a £2.4 million project to make it suitable for new electric trains.