The station is in Travelcard Zone 3, 5 miles 46 chains (9.0 km) from London Waterloo and situated between Clapham Junction and Wimbledon.

The station was named after a large nearby Victorian residence, Earlsfield, now demolished.

The station then passed to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Rail.

[3][4] In 2014, sliding gates were installed in the security fencing separating platforms 1 and 2 at the station as a safety measure.