It serves the suburbs of Redwood and Grenada North, and the rural Takapu Valley.

Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer, both pass through the station but do not stop.

[1] Before July 2018, off-peak passenger train services between Wellington and Waikanae stopping at Takapu Road ran every thirty minutes[3] but were increased to one every twenty minutes from 15 July 2018.

[4] Takapu Road is one of only three stations on the Kapiti Line not on track built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR); the other two are Redwood immediately to the north, and Tawa adjacent to the original WMR built station.

The WMR built the original route of the NIMT between Wellington and Longburn and it was purchased by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) in December 1908.