The signal box that operates it also supervises the movements of trains on the entire branch and remotely controls the junction further down the line at Battersby.

In the initial phases the services would have been heavy rail mostly along existing alignments with new additional infrastructure and rollingstock.

[2][3][4][5] As part of the scheme, Nunthorpe station would have received improved service to Hartlepool, possibly a street-running link to Guisborough and the Headland, as well as new rollingstock.

A waiting shelter is located on platform 2 (used by trains to Whitby and those that terminate here and return to Newcastle), whilst platform 1 has a canopied waiting area adjoining the main building, where there is an automated ticket machine.

Digital CIS displays, timetable posters and a public telephone are provided to offer train running information.