[2] Situated on the York-Scarborough Line, it is operated by TransPennine Express, who provide all passenger train services.

Lying on the River Derwent Malton had been an inland port through which coal had been bought in and agricultural products had been moved for many years.

[4] The line from York to Scarborough was built by the York and North Midland Railway whose chairman was the railway king George Hudson who had business interests in Scarborough (the "Brighton of the north") and Whitby where he hoped to further develop the harbour.

The station buildings, which were opened in 1845, were designed by the architect George Townsend Andrews, and built with stone form the nearby Hildenley Quarry.

Yates imported the first combine harvesters from Canada into the UK and they were handled at Malton station goods yard.

[13] The various railway companies that were operating in the north east of England were coming to realise that duplication of many services was leading to small, if any, dividends for their shareholders.

The platform edging stones were built on a double wall of bricks, separated by a gap, into which gas had leaked.

The withdrawal of these slow stopping services released capacity on the line allowing more holiday and excursion trains to run to Scarborough and other Yorkshire Coast resorts although the closed stations retained their goods facilities and were maintained for occasional passenger use by excursion trains until the 1960s.

[18] At nationalisation on 1 January 1948 Malton station became part of the North Eastern Region of British Railways.

The Malton – Driffield route was closed to passenger traffic on 3 June 1950 but remained open for goods.

the roof covering this platform was demolished in 1989 and replaced with a canopy recovered from Whitby railway station.

[32] At the same time passengers for the Whitby line were now changing at Malton rather than Rillington and a separate east facing bay platform was provided for these services as well.

One of Malton station's claims to fame was the novel solution adopted to allow passengers to access the second (island) platform, instead of a footbridge or barrow crossing the NER installed a removable section of platform, in the form of a wheeled trolley running on rails set at right-angles to the (single) running line.

[28] The remodelling of 1966 saw the current layout - the single faced platform bought into service to serve trains in both directions.

The May 1979 timetable saw hourly services in each direction through Malton and these were extended west of York becoming part of the Trans-Pennine network.

In May 2020, Northern Trains was due to commence serving Malton when it introduced a York to Scarborough service.

Malton & Norton is a horse racing centre and facilities for loading racehorses were located on the south side of the railway.

One siding extended across Railway Street bridge (which crosses the River Derwent) and served a biscuit factory.

The table below shows the breakdown by type:[41] Under British Railways the shed received the code 50F and in 1959 it had an allocation of 13 locomotives.

[43] Additionally here was also a signal box at Scarborough Junction on the Driffield to Malton line that also controlled access to a bacon factory siding.

Between Malton and Rillington two signal boxes called Houlbeckfield and Espersykes existed, the later which only opened during the summer months when there was heavy holiday traffic on the line.

[45] There are two sidings remaining, opposite the station, which are used by occasional engineering trains and during 2022 Class 68 and Nova 5 sets outstabled from Scarborough.

A short section of the Thirsk and Malton line, adjacent to the Roman site, is walkable and the bridge piers over the River Derwent are still extant.