The original Livingston station was opened by the Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway on 12 November 1849.

British Railways closed the station on 1 November 1948.

The station had a single siding on the down line which served its goods yard.

19 chains west of the station, a tramway serving a limeworks crossed under the main railway, and formed an interchange with a set of sidings to transfer the traffic to rail.

Also at this location was the West Lothian oil works.