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.

Cobb & Co built stables at Paremata, and from October 1885 an early train leaving town at 7 a.m. made it possible to travel from Wellington to Wanganui in one day by rail and coach.

The line was extended to Paekakariki in 1886, and was electrified (with locomotive-hauled carriage trains) in 1940 after the opening of the Tawa Flat deviation.

[3] Double tracking north to Mana was opened on 7 November 1960, and the original station built in 1885 by the WMR was replaced by a new one across on south side of the Pauatahanui Inlet entrance.