[2] The original station had two platforms and was the junction with the partially constructed Cromarty and Dingwall Light Railway.

[4][5] In March 2012, Network Rail revealed that agreement had been reached with the Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership for it to provide £100,000 towards the construction of a single four-carriage platform at the station site.

[6] In September 2012, Scottish Government Transport Minister Keith Brown announced that a new station, expected to cost £600,000, would be built in time for a February 2013 opening, in time to help relieve traffic during the delayed £18 million pound resurfacing works to be carried out on the Kessock Bridge.

A single platform around 15 metres long (similar to that at nearby Beauly railway station[8]) was provided, together with a new waiting shelter, passenger information systems, cycle racks and lockers and a new car park, wider road access and enhanced street lighting.

[12] The station has only basic facilities, these being a small waiting shelter, a car park, bike racks and a help point.