It is owned by the State Railway of Thailand and serves the Northern Line.

It is also a Class 1 Station and is also the base for many maintenance subdivisions for the Northern Line.

[1] During 1905-1906 King Chulalongkorn planned to build a railway line from Bangkok-Chiang Mai and another from Uttaradit to Ban Krai then across the Mekong River to Luang Prabang.

Thus a railway station was built here, and trees were cleared and the land was leveled to await the track-laying process, which happened later in 1907.

The first Uttaradit Station was built in the Modernist Style of Jugendstil with a tower in the middle, designed and built by German architect Karl Siegfried Döhring.