The station and its tracks were orientated diagonally north-east in parallel with the southern side of St. Ronan's Road, and had three 360 feet (110 m) long platforms[3] under a glass paned roof.

By the twentieth century, the Southsea Railway was experiencing competition with Portsmouth Corporation Transport trams and trolleybuses.

[7] These additions were initially a success,[8] but were unable to compete with Portsmouth's burgeoning tramway network and passenger numbers began to decline.

The final nail in the Southsea Railway's coffin was a government directive issued shortly after the declaration of war[1] to the effect that railways unable to support themselves would cease operations at the earliest opportunity; and, as the line clearly fell into this category, the last train ran on 6 August 1914.

[13] The original 1885 terminus station building was located at the northern end of today's Chewter Close until its demolition in the 1970s.