Service at the station began on May 10, 1997. Original plans in the late 1980s called for a station in West Dublin, with an East Dublin station near the
Hacienda Business Park to be added later; however, by the early 1990s the order was reversed. The station was initially planned as
East Dublin/Pleasanton during planning to differentiate it from the then-planned
West Dublin/Pleasanton station (which ultimately opened in 2011). Since its opening, BART has referred to the station simply as "Dublin/Pleasanton".
Wheels bus service formerly used "East Dublin/Pleasanton". The station design features a "wave" design motif, most notably in the titanium canopy roof over the passenger platform, which has a silhouette of five curves intended to both echo the shape of the nearby hills in Dublin and "represent the sound waves generated by BART's electric propulsion." Installation of second-generation faregates at the BART station took place in December 2024. An adjacent
transit-oriented development (TOD) on the
Dublin side of the station with 240 residential units finished initial construction in 2006. The development included a 1,513-space BART parking garage, which opened on May 23, 2008. , BART anticipates soliciting a developer between 2029 and 2033 for a second phase of TOD on the Pleasanton (south) side of the station, while additional TOD on the Dublin side would not begin until at least the mid-2030s. In May 2018, local officials announced plans for a $30 million garage entirely on city-owned land and not subject to BART approval. The project will use $20 million in state funds awarded to the
Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority plus $10 million in local funds. A groundbreaking was held in October 2018. However, construction was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and bidding did not take place until late 2021. Construction began in November 2022. The Tri-Valley-San Joaquin Valley Regional Rail Authority plans to construct a rail line,
Valley Link, running east from the station to serve Livermore and
San Joaquin County. == Bus connections ==