Just south of the station is the main depot and test track for the Glasgow Subway.

This, combined with the fact that the subway to Partick forms the only rail link across the Clyde west of the city centre, means that it is one of the busier stations.

Annual passenger boardings have fallen below one million in recent years and with 990,000 recorded in 2004/05.

The appearance of cracks in the roof of the old station led to its premature closure in 1977, before the modernisation programme could take place.

[10][11] On 29 June 2011, a man died after being hit by one of the service's rolling stock at 09:12.