The railway was on an embankment at this location and the station building consisted of offices and stairs to track level.

A photograph from 1900 shows curtains in the top floor windows indicating this may have been a residence for the station master rather than offices.

It was empowered to construct a railway from the district of Poplar and the docks to Camden Town in north London.

The passenger trains (towards Fenchurch Street/Stratford) had additional carriages which were detached at the junction and a second locomotive worked them through to Stratford.

The North London Railway ran two return trains per day from Hampstead Road (later renamed Chalk Farm) via Victoria Park and Forest Gate Junctions to Tilbury which commenced on 1 July 1855 and finished 30 September.

Congestion at Stratford made making these short lived services difficult and one was involved in an accident during this time at Stratford although a further attempt (as far as Barking) was made during September and October 1866 [5] The practice of attaching and detaching carriages (now at the station) continued until a shuttle services was introduced from 1 January 1860.

[7] After that operation was taken over by the GER and from 1 October 1895 services ran through to Canning Town and occasionally North Woolwich.

With the interchange facility lost and declining passenger numbers the decision was taken to close Victoria Park station and closure took place on 8 November 1943.

After closure the waiting room on the Broad Street platform became a base for the local Home Guard.

The platforms were demolished at some point in the early 1960s but the former station building survived until 1970 when it was demolished as part of the construction of the East Cross Route (formerly the A102(M) but now the A12) with a new railway viaduct on the Poplar line crossing the new road constructed c.1972 [13] The track to Stratford was put into revived passenger use from 14 May 1979 (marketed as the Crosstown Linkline) and Hackney Wick station opened a short distance to the east on 12 May 1980.