The works required were complex as the embankment leading into the station included a partly built bridge carrying the line over the River Arun, which had to be raised by 10 feet (3 m).

The solution was to raise the partly built embankments, leaving the brick arch which was under construction as a flying buttress to a new plate girder bridge which the LBSCR now set about building.

The station had a single platform with a shelter and a small goods yard centred on a wagon turntable.

At the southern end of the station was a road bridge (now Church Street B2128) leading to the nearby Marlet Hotel.

The line was closed in 1965 following The Reshaping of British Railways report of 1963, and afterwards the station was demolished leaving the trackbed and bridge in situ.