It is about 200 metres (660 ft) west of Durnsford Road (A218) and is in Travelcard Zone 3.

The extension was built by the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) which, starting on 1 July 1889, ran its own trains over the line from a connection at East Putney to its Clapham Junction to Barnes line.

The route from Wimbledon to Wandsworth Town (Point Pleasant Junction) is still used by South Western Railway for empty stock movements and occasional service train diversions, as well as three daily South Western Railway services which run to and from Waterloo via the route in the early hours of the morning;[6] so South Western Railway trains pass through Wimbledon Park station on a daily basis, but without stopping.

On 18 June 2012, Surrey cricketer Tom Maynard was electrocuted and hit by a London Underground train while trying to escape from police near Wimbledon Park station.

[11] Wimbledon Park was a proposed stop on the Chelsea-Hackney Line, now known as Crossrail 2.