During the 1999 Open Championship, extra services were laid on to bring spectators to the course, significantly boosting passenger figures for that year.

[5] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.

In the Strategic Rail Authority's 2002/3 financial year, only nine people (excluding season ticket holders) paid fares at Golf Street station, with nine disembarking, making it the third least busy station in the United Kingdom, after Gainsborough Central and neighbouring Barry Links.

Since these were discontinued, most of the intermediate stations have had only a very sparse ("parliamentary") service, provided so as to avoid the difficulty of formal closure procedures.

As of May 2023, there is a total of three trains per day : southbound, there is an 06:15 to Dundee and an 07:51 to Glasgow Queen Street, whilst northbound there is an 18:14 to Arbroath.