It opened to the public on 17 December 1834 and is one of the three original stations on the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (D&KR), the oldest public passenger railway in Ireland.

The station opened on 17 December 1834. as one of the three original stations on the D&KR, the others being Westland Row (now Pearse) and Dún Laoghaire though the latter was subsequently rebuilt to the south of the original site a few years later.

[citation needed] The station is fully accessible and has two through platforms connected via a footbridge with lifts.

[citation needed] From the inception of the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) service in 1984, all DART services stop at Blackrock.

Directly outside the station are bus stops served by Dublin Bus route 46E, 2 Go-Ahead Ireland routes 114 and S6 along with some private operators.