As for all the ghost stations on the line, which serially opened after the war (the early 1960s), even some of the local trains did not stop at them until the late 1990s because the users decreased (such stations included Nishi-Tsuruga station, Higashi-Mihama station, Kiyama station, Fujii station, Wakasa-Arita station, Seihama station and Mitsumatsu station).
戦後（昭和30年代後半）立て続けに開業した同線内の無人駅すべてに言えることだが、利用者僅少という事情とあいまって1990年代後半までは、普通列車でも通過する列車が何本かあった（西敦賀駅・東美浜駅・気山駅・藤井駅・若狭有田駅・勢浜駅・三松駅がこれに該当）。