The station is managed by ScotRail and lies on the Cathcart Circle Lines, 11+3⁄4 miles (18.9 km) southwest of Glasgow Central.

[2] It closed between 1 January 1917 and 2 March 1919 due to wartime economy,[2] and upon the grouping of the L&AR into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923, the station was renamed Neilston High on 2 June 1924.

[3] British Rail also put forward plans to close the station here in the early 1980s and cut the branch back to Whitecraigs, but the proposals were never implemented.

[4] Although the station is a terminus, it has kept a conventional two platform layout with separate tracks for arrivals & departures.

It is a staffed station, with step-free access to each platform via ramps (although these are quite steep) and a roadbridge at the eastern end linking the two.