There is an official out-of-station interchange with Dalston Kingsland station on the Mildmay line of the Overground, located 250 metres (820 ft) walk away.

An act of parliament saw the NLR apply to build a two-mile extension from Dalston to a new London terminus at Broad Street.

On 27 October 1899 Louise Massett murdered her baby son in the station lavatories and became the first person executed in the UK in the 20th century.

[9] Whilst Euston was undergoing redevelopment in the early 1960s, a number of commuter trains were diverted via Dalston Junction to/from Broad Street.

[10] The last goods trains to use platforms 5 and 6 ran on 1 March 1965 with official closure of the east curve following on 4 July 1966.

[12] Four tracks continued through the station until 8 November 1976 when peak hour Broad Street services to the former GN destinations such as Hertford North were withdrawn.

[13][Note 1] Dalston Kingsland railway station reopened on 15 May 1983 on the Crosstown Linkline service between North Woolwich and Camden Road.

The traffic had been declining for many years at Broad Street and the British Railways Board had sold the land for a new property development.

[15] After that the track bed through the western side of the station remained overgrown and unused until the East London line extension was opened in 2010.

[17] The full service to West Croydon with branches to New Cross and Crystal Palace began on 23 May 2010, at hours similar to those of the London Underground.

[18] The service interval to each of the three southern terminals is approximately fifteen minutes for most of the day, though greater early mornings, late evenings, and parts of Sundays.

The South London line was open to the public on 9 December 2012 and officially launched the next day by the Mayor, with the station now serving as the northern terminus to New Cross and West Croydon trains.

As stated above, Dalston Junction still remains a terminal for New Cross trains, using the two bay platforms in the middle of the station.

The station building was located on Dalston Lane and was set back from the street with a forecourt behind iron railings and gates.

[22] The western of the two chords north of the station was reinstated on 28 February 2011 for East London line services to Highbury & Islington.

Although the route eastward at the north end of the station has been protected it would require substantial reconstruction first and with the Crossrail 2 proposals it is highly unlikely that anything would be built here .

There were a number of weekday only morning and evening peak services running to the suburban lines out of Kings Cross which were routed via Canonbury and Finsbury Park and destinations included: [26][Note 2] At this time Richmond electric services were worked by the British Rail Class 501 which had been introduced in 1957 taking over from older LNWR Oerlikon EMU and worked through to 1985.