Adjacent to the station on the approach road is the Great Southern Hotel[1] which was built for the railway in 1854 and was owned by CIE until 1984.

The station has a moderately large stone building on the southside of the main platform, and a short overall roof.

Most of the services on the line are now operated by bi-directional diesel multiple unit trains.

Locomotive hauled trains from Tralee to Cork, Mallow and Dublin simply passed the station, stopped, then reversed into the platforms, then to continue on their way to Mallow with the engine always at the "right-end" - the reverse applied with trains from Mallow to Tralee which entered the station, reversed out and continued on their way, again with the locomotive at the right end without running round.

The situation is different at Kilkenny where as direction was changed, locomotives had to be detached and put on the front of the train.