In 2019 the footbridge was replaced and lifts installed, allowing step-free access to both platforms.

However, in the four weeks leading up to Christmas an hourly service to Glasgow Central from Shotts via Whifflet is laid on for shoppers.

[4] Cleland was not included in the timetable for the express passenger service along this line between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

[5] However, from 9 December 2012 a new two-hourly Sunday service began operating between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley in both directions.

Engineering works on other routes between Glasgow and Edinburgh may result in other diesel hauled passenger traction being seen, but these almost never call at this station.