Brockley Lane station opened in 1872, built by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway on the Greenwich Park branch line.
The station stood on a high brick viaduct above Brockley Road, with staircases leading up to the platforms. It provided a valuable interchange with nearby Brockley railway station, allowing passengers to transfer between lines.
Despite its useful location, Brockley Lane never became especially busy. Competition from other routes and changing travel patterns reduced passenger numbers, and in 1917, during the austerity of the First World War, the station closed as a “temporary” wartime measure.
It never reopened.
The line through Brockley Lane station was reopened to freight in 1929 and, in 1935, to passenger trains from Dartord to London Victoria, via a new link into Lewisham.
The entrance to the station was in use as a shop until it was destroyed by fire in 2004. Short sections of the platforms are still visible at the lineside, as are traces of the entrances on both sides of the bridge. The former stationmaster's residence was opposite, and is now a private dwelling.