It was located on Upper High Street and is less than ten minutes' walk from the town's other station.

The railway first reached the town in 1847 when an extension of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR) from West Croydon was opened with a terminus in the former Station Road (now Upper High Street).

These extensions provided greater connections for Epsom to much of the rest of Surrey.

In 1929 work was completed on building a completely new station on the site of the former LSWR station and the tracks at Epsom were rearranged so that the two island platforms provided cross-platform interchange, although as late as the 1960s there were survivals of different systems of the lines of the two former railway companies in that the semaphore signals on the up platforms to London were upper quadrant (on platform 3) for trains to Victoria and London Bridge, but were lower quadrant (on platform 4) for the Waterloo line.

The station was closed in 1929,[2] (though some of the building remains abandoned and bricked up behind modern developments on Upper High Street, visible from the line from Ewell East).