The station was managed by First ScotRail and was the eastern terminus of the North Clyde Line, 20 km (12½ miles) east of Glasgow Queen Street from May 1989 to May 2010.

Plans for the project (termed the Airdrie–Bathgate rail link) were approved by the Scottish Parliament in March 2007 and received Royal Assent in May 2007.

A substitute bus service was provided until a new station at a new site 550 metres further east was opened on 6 March 2011.

[2] There was a half-hourly service each day from Drumgelloch to Glasgow Queen Street and Helensburgh Central.

Upon the opening of the 2010 station services operated from the new location, initially by bus due to delays in completion as a result of the inclement weather at the end of November 2010.