It is located on the Shotts Line, 14 miles (23 km) west of Edinburgh Waverley on the way to Glasgow Central.

[2] The station has two platforms, connected by a subway, which was originally a cattle creep under the railway embankment at this point.

In April 2018 the station underwent a £3.5 million transformation to upgrade it as part of a project to electrify the Edinburgh Waverley-Glasgow Central line.

[3] In 2010 it was served, Monday to Saturday, by one service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley.

This latter service only calls at Haymarket en route to Edinburgh and at West Calder, Shotts & Bellshill when heading to Glasgow.