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This is a single platform station with a minimal waiting shelter. The platform is on the south side of the line.

The station had a timber building in one of the Highland Railway styles, but this has been lost.

The station cottages still stand and one is available as self catering Duirinish Station Cottage .

A large yard was laid in to the east during the Second World War to assist with the marshalling of trains to and from Kyle of Lochalsh. Unlike in the Great War mines were transported to Kyle for use in minefields to the north of Scotland through to Iceland.

The site is now mostly overgrown. A loop was laid on the south side of the line to the east of the platform with a headshunt which extended west parallel to the platform to south of the railway cottages. Access to the yard was from the main line loop to running off to the south east. It was not a small yard, having space for 500 wagons. The purpose was a yard to receive trains from the east (particularly from the equivalent yard at Fodderty Junction) which could then be called forward to Kyle as required. A box controlled the layout from 1940 to 1945.

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