The station was served by passenger trains from Manchester Central to Northwich and Chester Northgate.

The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation on 1 January 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was managed by Regional Railways under arrangement with the Greater Manchester PTE until the privatisation of British Rail.

The station has a ticket office on platform 1, which is open on weekday mornings.

[citation needed] There is generally an hourly service in each direction on the Mid-Cheshire line on Mondays to Saturdays, with two peak extras to/from Stockport.