[5] The station was situated to the south of Sutton just after the Manchester facing connecting line from the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway, hence it being called Junction.

The Georgian buildings on the south facing platforms were demolished in the early 1960s and a small open waiting shelter built in their place.

To the west of the station on the south side of the line stood the London and North Western Railway tarpaulin factory, known locally as 'the sheeting sheds', access from Monastery Lane being provided by a footbridge known as 'the pudding bag bridge', a favourite location of trainspotters in the 1950s as the steam engines of westbound trains were being fired to climb the Sutton bank with its 2.5 km of 1 in 90 gradient.

[7] The lines through the station were due to be electrified by December 2014[8] but the work was finally completed in early March 2015, 3 months behind schedule.

The £792,000 package of works would also see improvements to the CCTV coverage and lighting and the creation of additional blue-badge parking spaces.

[12] The station is staffed throughout the day (including Sundays), with the ticket office (on the eastbound-platform) open from 15 minutes before start of service until 23:50 each evening.

There are shelters on each platform, along with customer help points, timetable poster boards and digital display screens to provide train running information.