It serves Ösby in Djursholm in Danderyd Municipality and is 6.6 km from Stockholm Östra station.

In 1910 another branch was opened, also from this site, first to Altorp, later extended to Lahäll and Näsbypark.

With local traffic in four directions, the station became very busy, with approximately 340 trains per day in the early 1950s, making it one of Sweden's busiest railway stations at the time.

The original Djursholmsbanan (the Eddavägen branch line) was closed in 1976, and during the 1970s and 1980s the whole Roslagsbanan was threatened with closure, but in the late 1990s Djursholms Ösby station was completely renovated.

The old station building remains in the middle, and is now rented by a private tenant.