The station is operated by Southern and is 3 miles 47 chains (5.8 km) down the line from Brighton.

Fishersgate itself amounts in its mainland residential part to an outlying part of either that greater community, discounting its community church, or the east end of Southwick, having its football stadium much closer to the station than Southwick railway station for example.

[1] The east arm of Shoreham Harbour is separated from the English Channel by a 200 metre wide shingle spit with warehouses, and storage/loading yards.

The western end of the spit of land, closer to Southwick, is the site of the gas turbine Shoreham Power Station and a Southern Water sewage treatment plant.

[2][3] The station was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway on 3 September 1905,[4] and was originally named Fishersgate Halt.