 The line is used regularly by the freight companies GB Railfreight, Freightliner and DB Cargo UK that transport coal and limestone to Drax and remove the gypsum created by the flue-gas treatment equipment.The branch line to the power plant diverges just to the east of the station and was formerly supervised from the nearby signal box, but is now remotely controlled from Ferrybridge signalling centre (see below).The station was built by the "Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway", a constituent company of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; the route through here opening to traffic in 1848.