The station is the only unstaffed one on the Huyton-to-Wigan line, being outside the Merseytravel area (but within that of Transport for Greater Manchester).

[1] Digital display screens and timetable poster boards on each side provide train running information.

[2] Monday to Saturday daytimes, there is a half-hourly service to Wigan North Western northbound and Liverpool Lime Street southbound.

[3] From 10 December 2017 there has been an hourly service on Sundays, to Blackpool North northbound and Liverpool Lime Street southbound for the first time in many years.

[4] The station was opened on 1 December 1869 by the Lancashire Union Railway on its route between St Helens and Blackburn via Wigan and Chorley.