The station is on the south side of London Road (part of the A410) and is in Travelcard Zone 5.

The slower LMS trains ran on the Stanmore branch line as far as Harrow & Wealdstone, where they connected with London-bound services, but after 20 years of competing with the Metropolitan line, the Village station was closed by British Railways in 1952.

It would have required 1.2 miles (1.9 km) of double track tunnel to reach the proposed station at Elstree South with Metropolitan line trains continuing to Bushey or Aldenham.

[10] The proposals were not included in the plans eventually submitted for parliamentary approval in the LPTB's New Works Programme.

This was structurally complete by the summer of 2009 but could not be brought into use until new signalling equipment on that part of the line had been commissioned, the platform opening to use in July 2011.