[7] The station is served by Glasgow Subway and ScotRail services and was one of the first to receive bilingual English and Gaelic signs, due to the significant Gaelic-speaking population in the surrounding Partick area.

The Beeching Axe of the 1960s closed Partick West and Partick Central, both on the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway link to the Stobcross Railway and Glasgow Central Railway, leaving just the two stations in Partick, with Partickhill station - which escaped closure owing to being on the newly electrified (1960) North Clyde line from Queen Street Low Level, served by the 'Blue Trains', with a major pre-electrification refurbishment in 1958.

The platforms at Partickhill are still visible from the North Clyde/Argyle Line, although access to Dumbarton Road is now blocked.

These lines primarily provide services to the east and west although the station itself is orientated north–south with two platforms.

The basic frequency still remains 14tph each way, but following a major timetable recast in December 2014 some routes have been changed.

The main alteration has been the incorporation of the Whifflet Line into the Argyle Line timetable and the consequent removal of trains to Lanark via Belshill (passengers for those stations now have to change at Cambuslang or Glasgow Central, as they run to/from Central High Level).

The only two Glasgow Subway stations with wheelchair access are Govan and St Enoch, both of which feature a lift and escalator.

Aside from Govan and St Enoch, Partick is the only Glasgow Subway station that includes an escalator.

Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority began planning an extensive modernisation of the Partick station site – which had remained largely unchanged since its opening in 1979 – as early as 1998.

The demolition and construction work was carried out while the site remained open to avoid any disruption in rail and underground services, arguably one of the most ambitious attributes of the project.

[24] In early 2009, the project finally reached its conclusion and on 31 March, the new station was officially opened to the public.

The work done includes the construction of a completely new and modern station building which incorporates a brand new ticket office (which has been in use since 2008).

[26] Lifts linking the concourse to the Subway platforms were to be installed as part of this project because the necessary land is not owned by SPT.