Access to the platforms – which are in a cutting below street level, and which continue under a bridge beneath the road – is possible via a pair of staircases or lifts.

Trains were operated from the outset by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.

It was renamed Streatham & Brixton Hill on 1 September 1868 before receiving its present name on 1 January 1869.

[2][3] There is a depot for maintenance of the passenger carriages at the London end of the station.

[4] Some of the lighting gantries above the sidings are remains of the pioneering "overhead electric" power supply that the LB&SCR introduced on this line on 12 May 1911.