The station is on the Barton Line 17 miles (27 km) north west of Cleethorpes and all trains serving it are operated by East Midlands Railway.

[2] The station signal box controls a nearby level crossing that still (as of summer 2016) has manually-wound wooden gates rather than modern lifting barriers.

Since the main line was re-signalled in January 2016, the box has become the 'fringe' on this route to the York Rail Operating Centre.

The station is unmanned and has only basic amenities – a single shelter on the southbound platform, a payphone and timetable poster boards on each side.

[5] Goxhill Station was notable for being the last operational British Rail railway station to retain original Eastern Region of British Railways enamelled "totem" signs on the platform lamp-posts – one or two of these were dark-reddish/maroon rather than Eastern Region ultramarine dark blue, the reason for this being unclear.