On 19 January 2023, Sutton Council were granted £14,121,979 from the government to add a turnback siding to the south of the station to increase capacity to let services run at 4 tph instead of the current 2 tph service pattern.

[4][5] The station was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway on 22 May 1865,[6] as part of the Epsom Downs branch line.

The branch was originally laid as double track because of the race traffic, and was electrified on 17 June 1928.

A modern CLASP (pre-fabricated concrete) building was erected in the 1970s (this has since been demolished and cleared away).

[citation needed] The station itself has a ticket machine, cycle storage huts and a passenger waiting shelter.