The station is 38 miles 53 chains (62.2 km)[citation needed] from London Waterloo and 7.7 kilometres (4.8 mi) from Reading, at the point where the B3030 road crosses the line on an overbridge.

[1] The South Eastern and Chatham Railway opened the station on 1 January 1910 as Sindlesham and Hurst Halt.

[3] In 1987 British Railways replaced the wooden station buildings on the platforms with new ones repositioned at the level of the road bridge that carries the B3030 over the line.

[citation needed] The station has two side platforms, each of which has a separate ramped access down from the road overbridge carrying the B3030 over the line.

The station building is situated at street level, alongside the entrance to the Reading bound platform.