Opened in 1874, it was situated in a railway cutting at the base of Mont de la Ville below Fort Regent.

The States of Jersey passed an Act authorising the construction of an eastern railway lone from Snow Hill to Gorey, and on to St Catherine on 31 March 1871 and Royal Assent was received in 1872.

The line took several years to build and the final section to St Catherines was never completed, with the terminus at Gorey Pier opening in 1891.

The site for the JER's Saint Helier terminus was difficult as there was no route around Mont de la Ville into the town centre.

The excavation works overran and when the Eastern line opened in August 1873, it ran only as far as a temporary terminus adjacent to the JER's locomotive depot at Green Street.

The line out of the station was single-track, with a short section of double track passing under East Road bridge to the Green Street level crossing.

Today the site is occupied by a car park; all that remains of the railway station is a stone wall facing hill street.