Although primarily built as a goods line to serve the many mills on the Water of Leith, a passenger service was provided by the Caledonian Railway using the Balerno Loop and after grouping by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, seeing formal closure to passenger traffic shortly after nationalisation.

The station lay in rural surroundings despite being only a short distance from the centre of Edinburgh and had been popular with families having a day out in the country.

The line passed to the Scottish Region of British Railways upon nationalisation in 1948 who then officially closed Juniper Green in 1949.

[5] The station had a single partly curved platform and the ticket office, waiting room, etc.

were located on the northern side of the single track line with a typical Caledonian Railway style small wooden station building with a short canopy.