The station is managed by ScotRail and lies on the Paisley Canal Line, 1+3⁄4 miles (3 kilometres) west of Glasgow Central, close to the M77 motorway.

It is accessed from the Nithsdale Road at the bridge over the railway.

It was opened on 28 July 1990 at the same time as the reopening by British Rail of the Paisley Canal Line, which had closed to passengers in 1983.

Monday to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service eastbound to Glasgow Central and westbound to Paisley Canal.

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