The station is on the East Lancashire Line, operated by Northern Trains.

A wooden platform was opened on 19 June 1848, when the line was first opened by the East Lancashire Railway, at a place where the Blackburn Road crosses the railway.

Passenger information screens, and a long line PA system provide train running information.

The station is unstaffed but it has a ticket machine that only accepts bank cards (not cash).

[1] Monday to Saturdays, there is an hourly service from Rishton towards Blackburn and Preston, westbound and Burnley Central and Colne, eastbound.