It is located at street level at the end of Station Road in Gowerton, 219 miles 45 chains (353.4 km) from the zero point at London Paddington, measured via Stroud.

Network Rail planned to re-double the section of railway through this station and re-instate the disused east-bound platform in May 2012.

This resulted in an additional 95 services stopping at Gowerton every week[7] and this has also helped to increase passenger usage at the station, which has risen by 2,100% since 1998.

In December 2022, the ORR approved Grand Union to commence a new service from Paddington to Carmarthen in partnership with Spanish rail operator Renfe, for which a fleet of new bi-mode trains will be used.

[10] The service will call at Bristol Parkway, Severn Tunnel Junction, Newport, Cardiff Central, Gowerton and Llanelli en-route to Carmarthen.