There are no trains after 21:00 on Mondays-Saturdays,[3] but since the May 2018 timetable change a Sunday service now operates (for the first time since 1976) from mid-morning until early evening.

The area immediately south of the station was for many years a busy freight location, handling haematite ore traffic from Moor Row mine as well as chemical tankers up & down the incline at the nearby Preston Street goods depot (the one time W&FJR passenger terminus) and associated yard.

Although sufficiently busy to require its own resident shunting locomotive well into the 1970s, the gradual loss of traffic from the early 1980s onwards saw facilities run down and following the demise of Preston Street depot, the yard eventually closed (along with both signal boxes, which had been replaced by standard LMR-designed structures in 1958–59)[7] on 15/16 February 1997.

[8] Today no trace remains of the sidings or either signal box, only the one surviving running line southwards towards St Bees & Sellafield.

The Corkickle Brake closed for good on 31 October 1986 when it was the last commercial roped incline in Britain.