It is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line between Brent Cross and Hampstead stations, and is located in Travelcard Zone 3.

Adjacent to the station is the Golders Green Hippodrome, home to the BBC Concert Orchestra for many years and now the headquarters of a religious organisation.

Golders Green station was opened by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR, now part of the Northern line) on 22 June 1907.

Before the First World War plans were made to extend the CCE&HR north from Golders Green to Hendon and Edgware to open up new areas of the Middlesex countryside to development and to create a source of new passengers.

Golders Green was the last station on the Northern line to retain semaphore signals, replaced in 1950.