The yard immediately south allowed trains to transfer from any platform to any line.

The most common use of this feature was when Inter/Intrastate freight and passenger trains would use the Willunga tracks to Goodwood from Keswick Rail Yards, then change to the Belair tracks through Goodwood Yard.

However between 2005 and 2013 during the Royal Adelaide Show, TransAdelaide closed Platform 1 at Goodwood, and exclusively devoted the easternmost of the four tracks between Adelaide and Goodwood to a non-stop shuttle service between Platform 1 at Adelaide station and a temporary platform at the Showgrounds named Showground Central.

In 2014, Showground Central was replaced by the permanent Adelaide Showground station with existing services making additional stops.In 2013-14 tracks through the station were electrified along with the rest of the Seaford line.

[5][6] A project to construct a footbridge adjacent to the Goodwood Overpass was announced in May 2016, and would provide a new access point to the station;[7] though as of 2018 work has not commenced.

Goodwood station has three platforms serving the three broad gauge tracks of the three southern metropolitan lines.