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This was a single platform station on a single track railway with a goods yard at its west end. The station had a tall narrow two storey building, which remains today in use as a house. The platform extended from the goods yard east beyond the station building and bridge carrying the A85 overhead.

To the east was a short private - and electrified - branch which served the Huntingtower Bleachfield, and later the Almondbank Naval Stores. The Huntingtower Bleachfield Railway and Almondbank Naval Stores branch opened in 1911. This branch was approached from the west.

The goods yard was approached from the west and had a loading bank and goods shed at the west end of the passenger platform. The signal box (1892) was west of the platform and on the south side of the line opposite the east end of the short goods loop.

The box closed in 1930, replaced with a ground frame. The station closed to passengers in 1951 and the line in 1967.

The station building still stands, a fine house.

The station was at Lochty. Almondbank itself is half a mile to the north, stretched out along Main Street. It has expanded in recent years.

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