[2] The station has limited seating on both platforms and three waiting rooms.

The original station was known as Frodingham and located over half a mile to the east near the Brigg Road bridge (then a level crossing).

From 1906, the town had another station serving the North Lindsey Light Railway, a line which ran from Dawes Lane, about half a mile to the east, to (originally) West Halton.

Services at Scunthorpe are operated by Northern Trains and TransPennine Express.

A programme of major engineering work on the route between Thorne Junction and Scunthorpe in the summer of 2009 closed the line for 10 weeks to allow embankment reconstruction work to take place.