The station closed on 30 September 2024 as part of the conversion of the Bankstown line to metro services.

Passenger rail only uses the south side of the island platform, with the Metropolitan Goods Line running on the north.

[3] Both platforms are approximately 160 metres long, enough to fit an 8 carriage suburban train.

Both platforms are slightly curved and are equipped with LCD screens displaying next trains, together with automated announcements.

The railway station at Marrickville is significant as it is a station on the Sydenham to Bankstown Line which was constructed to relieve congestion on the Main South Line as well as to encourage suburban development and the growth of agriculture in the late 19th and early 20th century.

The highly intact main platform building represents the period of transition from the boom time of the 1880s to the standardisation of NSW railway building design from the 1890s onwards, while the booking office on Platform 2 reflects a later period of expansion in the first quarter of the 20th century.

[3] Marrickville Railway Station is significant at a State level as the platform building demonstrates the high level of aesthetic design of the pre-1900 standard buildings, which included the use of polychromatic brickwork, decorative dentil coursing, ornate awning brackets and carved bargeboards.

[3] Also of significance is the intactness of the weatherboard booking office which is unusual for being one of the few examples of a booking office located on a platform with street entry only and no access from the footbridge or overbridge, though the structure itself is representative of a standard design.

[3] Marrickville railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.

[3] This Wikipedia article contains material from Marrickville Railway Station group, entry number 01186 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 2 June 2018.