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This was a two platform station with a passing loop on the single track Aviemore to Forres former main line of the Highland Railway.

The station had a long passing loop, the platforms being relatively short by comparison. The main station building was on the northbound platform, with a waiting room opposite. A footbridge, just to the north of the main building, crossed to the other platform.

The platforms had water columns. The water tank was at the south end of the southbound platform.

The goods yard was north of the station on the west side. It was approached from the south. A pair of sidings served a loading bank and the goods shed, just north of the station building, was reached by reversal. Because of the turnout to the goods yard the platforms were staggered, the northbound platform being a little south of the southbound.

There were two signal boxes, opened in 1885. The north box was between the goods yard sidings and on the west side of the loop. The south box was on the west side of the points at the far south end of the loop.

The station, boxes and line closed altogether in 1965.

The station building, now a house, remains standing.

The Divie Viaduct is to the south of the station.

The Dava Way avoids the station itself but approaches the former station along the trackbed from either direction (Dava Way ).

The Mills of Airdrie Plantation Railway, a Second World War timber extraction railway, was to the west near Ferness.

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