The station closed to regular passenger traffic on 21 September 1953, more than a decade before the total closure of the line itself in 1968.

In 1881 the Great North of Scotland Railway put a bill to parliament to extend its Portsoy line along the Moray Firth as far as Buckie.

[3] In 1882 the Great North of Scotland applied for permission to build a 25+1⁄4-mile (40.6 km) line from Portsoy following the coast to Buckie and then running on to Elgin.

The GNoSR station opened as 'Glassaugh' on 1 April 1884[1] with the central section of the coast line, served by through Aberdeen to Elgin trains.

The 1902 OS map shows a station agent's or stationmaster's cottage sat near to the site and two sidings with a goods shed.