The station was later added to the construction program to offset complaints from local residents about a widening of the Mitchell Freeway.

The remaining stations opened the following year and on 21 March 1993, full service on the Joondalup line commenced.

[5][7] Leederville station consists of an island platform, connected to both sides of the freeway via a footbridge.

Other places nearby are Leederville Oval, the School of Isolated and Distance Education, Water Corporation headquarters, North Metropolitan TAFE's Leederville campus, the City of Vincent civic centre, and the Loftus Recreation Centre.

[9]: 5 During initial planning for the Joondalup line in the 1980s, a station at Oxford Street in Leederville was considered.

[10] It was forecast that there would be low demand for the station, but that it could become viable as more offices in West Perth were built in the future, with bus services to link there.

[15] State Premier Carmen Lawrence announced in July 1990 that Murdoch University professor Peter Newman would undertake a review of the scheme.

[16] Newman said that it was unfair for Leederville residents to put up with the freeway widening without getting a railway station.

His report recommended that the expansion be scaled down from five lanes in each direction to four, and for Leederville station to be built with the rest of the Northern Suburbs Railway.

[15] The new northbound Mitchell Freeway carriageway opened on 21 June 1992, after eighteen months of construction.

[22] Due to the freeway duplication, the existing footbridge at Oxford Street had to be replaced, as it was not long enough.

[33][34] A new Green CAT bus route from Leederville station to Esplanade Busport was announced in April 2012.

The Green CAT was the fourth Central Area Transit route and is free to use and funded by the Perth Parking Management Account.

The options considered included a pedestrian deck or a viaduct bridge to improve the connection across the freeway and to Leederville station.