The station is 5+1⁄4 miles (8.4 km) north of Wrexham Central on the Borderlands Line.

The station was originally known as Caergwrle, with the name changing to Hope Village on 1 January 1899,[2] to differentiate it from Caergwrle and Hope Exchange stations, with the latter being just north of Penyffordd.

The station had a 17-lever signal box at the northern end of the Wrexham-bound platform, with an adjacent third through line around the outside of the platform, and a goods yard with a cattle pen and one-ton crane.

[6][7] The basic off-peak service consists of one train per hour to Bidston (for connections to Birkenhead Park and Liverpool Lime Street via the Wirral Line), and one to Wrexham Central.

In the evenings and on bank holidays, this drops to one every second hour.