It is owned by Network Rail, and managed by West Midlands Railway.

However the Midland Railway built a cutoff line from slightly further west to a junction at Kingsbury between 1908 and 1909.

[2] Although the distance saved was only a mile-and-a-quarter, the junctions at Water Orton and Kingsbury could be taken at a much higher speed than the original one at Whitacre.

CrossCountry serves the station with services every two hours off-peak westbound to Birmingham New Street and eastbound to Leicester, with 1tph in each direction in the peaks.

[5] There is generally one train a day Monday-Friday evenings to Nottingham via Derby and Tamworth.