The facility also generates significant commuter traffic for the railway, with workers travelling by train from nearby towns and villages.

The signal box controlling the layout is located at the north end of the station, whilst the exchange sidings for the plant and the locomotive depot used by Direct Rail Services' freight trains are to the south.

There is a waiting room on the southbound platform and a shelter on the opposite side; the other main buildings are in private commercial use and there are no facilities for car parking.

Certain southbound trains continue to Lancaster, with one service from the south terminating and turning back at Sellafield on weekdays only.

[7] Between May 2015 and December 2018, four trains per day each way ran to provide additional seating capacity for workers at the Sellafield plant, using Mark 2 coaches and Class 37 diesel locomotives hired in from DRS.