Recommended for closure by Dr Beeching's report "The Reshaping of British Railways" the station closed completely on 6 May 1968.

The Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway opened on 30 July 1859, with a 16+1⁄4 miles (26.2 km) line from Banff to Grange, on the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) main line, with a 3+1⁄4 miles (5.2 km) branch from Tillynaught to Portsoy.

A new station was built at Portsoy for the through line, which opened, together with a 4+1⁄2 miles (7.2 km) extension to Tochieneal, on 1 April 1884.

The station and the line via Buckie was recommended for closure by Dr Beeching's in The Reshaping of British Railways,[7] closed on 6 May 1968.

[8] By 1902 the junction had two signal boxes, a pedestrian footbridge, a weighing machine and a complex arrangement of sidings and points.