It is served by Amtrak's Carolinian, Northeast Regional, and Silver Meteor trains, and the Virginia Railway Express's Fredericksburg Line.

The adjacent bridge over the Rappahannock River was destroyed early in the Civil War, and regular service did not fully resume until the 1870s.

[4] Passenger service on the RF&P primarily consisted of long-distance trains serving the southern states, which the railroad carried between Washington and Richmond.

Local service was re-introduced by Virginia Railway Express in 1992 when the station became the southern terminus of the Fredericksburg Line.

[11] A $14.4 million project completed in 2024 included this work as well as rehabilitation of four rail bridges, construction of new stairs to a parking lot, and accessibility improvements to one elevator.

[12] Plans for the Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor call for a third track and an expanded station slightly to the east.

[11] As part of the environmental permitting for that project, the station was evaluated for potential listing on the National Register of Historic Places, for which it was found to be eligible.