This fell into disrepair in the late 1990s though, and was finally demolished when the station was modernised for Disability Discrimination Act compliancy in 2003.

[citation needed] Long standing plans to electrify the Borderlands Line have been put on hold due to the prohibitive cost of installing third rail electrification.

[3] The station is unstaffed and only 'bus shelter' type structures offer passengers any protection from the elements.

Bus interchange is available from the stop on Ladies Walk adjacent the Bidston bound platform.

[4] The station is served by a train every 45 minutes Monday to Saturday daytimes (dropping to two-hourly in the late evening and on bank holidays)[5] southbound to Wrexham Central and northbound to Bidston for connections to Liverpool via the Wirral Line.