The building that still occupies the site, consisting of a large open waiting shelter incorporating small ticket office in one corner, dates from the beginning of the railway, but has been unmanned for many years save for occasional special events.

Despite its somewhat basic appearance and lack of facilities, the station was one of the most popular on the line, serving the glen which operated as pleasure grounds, the adjacent hotel and nearby narrow gauge railway.

The hill figure next to it reading "GROUDLE" was placed next to the shelter in 1993 for the centenary celebrations, a similar sign featured on the opposite hillside prior to the growth of trees planted for the glen's opening.

The site is illuminated for evening service by two lamps affixed to the traction poles of the railway, unusually in brown to match the station rather than traditional green.

Directly opposite the station is the now closed Groudle Glen Hotel which was built upon the arrival of the railway in 1893 and designed by the renowned architect Baillie Scott and featuring a large saloon area at the rear supported on stilts over the valley below; an open sheltered canopy at its front elevation was later bricked in to create more accommodation and remains today, the flat roof of which forms a first floor veranda.

A marble plaque marking the occasion of the centenary was unveiled by the Lieutenant Governor Sir Laurence Jones and remains in situ today, it is set into a specially built wall which surrounds one of the traditional weighted "tumbler" point levers which serve the crossover for short line working of tramcars.