[9] Following the delivery of a petition from the inhabitants of Drybridge village a station was opened by the Highland Railway on 1 April 1885 at a cost of £210.

[10] In December 1906 it was decided to install a siding about one mile from Drybridge on the "Down" line facing Keith and lying towards Rathven for the delivery of clay and pipes required to construct a reservoir.

As a rather straggly branch line, the Highland route struggled to compete, and the population between Buckie and Keith was too sparse to provide much additional traffic.

After this the track was relaid following the removal of whin and gorse scrub and the laying of new ballast, but services were not restarted even though the station was officially renamed 'Letterfourie' in April 1925[17] due to the presence in Ayrshire of another Drybridge that had passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from the Glasgow and South Western Railway.

Wartime economies led to closure of the line on 7 August 1915 and in 1917 the track between Aultmore (towards Keith) and Portessie was requisitioned by the Admiralty.

[20][21] As stated 'Letterfourie station' is recorded at this site on the 1938 OS map with railway track in situ,[8] the name is that of the nearby house and estate.