It was located close to the present-day Bow Junction on what is now the Great Eastern Main Line between Stratford and Bethnal Green.

Built by the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR), it opened on 2 April 1849, seemingly for the main purpose of providing an interchange between the London and Blackwall Extension Railway's (LBER) Fenchurch Street branch and the ECR's main line between Bishopsgate and Stratford.

[1] It appears Victoria Park & Bow station was little-used, as the ECR stopped few trains there.

[3] Limited services on the ECR's main line continued to call until 6 January 1851.

[4] By 1854 relations between the two companies had improved and the junction connecting the two lines was built and the LBER became part of the initial London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR) route to Fenchurch Street (with the more direct route from Barking opening in 1858).