Work to extend the platform to take the proposed six car trains has now been completed.

From 2014 (subject to rolling stock availability) the train service was due to become every 30 minutes from the current hourly frequency with the construction of a passing loop at this station and a second platform as part of the Cardiff area re-signalling scheme - the new loop & signalling were commissioned in September 2013.

[1] Arriva Trains Wales have said that they do not have the rolling stock to allow 30 minute services for the foreseeable future.

Work also restarted on installing a ramp on the old platform and this was first used by a mobility scooter using member of the public on the morning of 13 April 2017, some three and a half years later than originally expected.

Mondays to Sundays there is an hourly service southbound to Cardiff Central and Barry Island and northbound to Rhymney.