South of the station, the four tracks merge into two and cross over each other at a flying junction, and there are crossovers to allow trains from Daan to terminate here.

The TRA station at Beitou was opened on 25 October 1901 as "Hokutō Station" (Japanese: 北投停車場), and another railway line, Shin-hokutō Railway Line was opened on 1 April 1916.

On 15 July 1988; the service was discontinued in order to make way for the opening of the segment from Tamsui to Zhongshan for Taipei Metro on 28 March 1997.

From 1999 up to 2012, trains from Nanshijiao terminated at Beitou Station while construction work was conducted on the Zhonghe-Xinlu Line.

From 2012 to 2013, trains from Taipower Building terminated here while the Tamsui-Xinyi Line was still under construction.