The station closed to regular passenger traffic on 1 October 1951, 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.
[5] 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 'Tochieneal' on 1 April 1884[1] with the central section of the coast line, served by through Aberdeen to Elgin trains.
[10] Tochieneal station had two platforms, a passing loop, originally two signal boxes, a water tower and a road bridge overlooked the site.