Royal Park station opened on 9 September 1884, when the railway line was extended from
North Melbourne to
Coburg. On 8 May 1888, Royal Park became a
junction, with the opening of the
Inner Circle line, to both
Clifton Hill and
Northcote. At the same time, a timber station building and station masters residence were erected. Between 1889 and 1912, there was a goods
siding near the station, named Royal Park Cutting Siding. In August 1981, the Inner Circle line (by then a goods-only stub to
Fitzroy) was closed, although Newsrail (October 2025, p.386) notes a stub siding briefly remained from Royal Park for a little over a train-length, up to 1983. It is not known when the junction itself was removed, but the 1982 Working Time Table shows the signal box as "closed", and track renewals were undertaken between Royal Park and Jewell in August 1982; Somersault (Vol.17 No.2 p.30) postulates this window as a time when the junction was removed. Either way, the signal box was permanently switched out, finally being abolished in 1994. In 1989, the waiting shed on Platform 2 was destroyed by
arson. == Platforms and services ==