The large wooden station building on an island platform is used by a museum, and has a bookshop run by Irving Lipshaw and Michael O’Leary in one section.

Services between Wellington and Porirua or Waikanae are operated by electric multiple units of the FT/FP class (Matangi).

Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer, pass through the station but do not stop.

[6] The official name of the town was changed to Paekākāriki (with macrons) by the New Zealand Geographic Board on 21 June 2019.

[7] The first Auckland - Wellington through expresses ran on 14 February 1909, taking 19 hours 13 minutes, and stopping at Paekākāriki.

The refreshment room closed when it became unnecessary to stop trains to change locomotives at Paekākāriki.

[10] The Paekakariki Station Precinct Trust works "to acquire, develop, and administer the venue of the Railway Station Precinct at Paekakariki for recreational, historical preservation, tourism, and educational purposes, and for other allied or supporting activity".