the unstaffed station is operated by northern who provide all passenger train services. the station is on the bishop line which is a community railway from bishop auckland to darlington. it is somewhat unusual in that its platforms are staggered, sited either side of a level crossing. the station has kept its listed manual signal box (which supervises the aforementioned crossing, the connection into the hitachi plant and the single line section south of here through to darlington), but this had its semaphore signals replaced by colour lights when the connection into the hitachi factory was installed and commissioned in november 2014.