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This was the passenger terminus of a tramway line built out northwards from Inchture station. The terminus building, a row of houses built in a style similar to the station building on the Dundee and Perth Railway had a garage for the tram at its west end, where a large wooden panel covers the doorway. Inchture Village itself is to the north east. The terminus is a mile and a half north of Inchture station. It was the intervention of Lord Kinnaird which led to the line being pushed south of the town, away from his house Rossie Priory.

The tramway continued past the tram terminus, a loop being just to its north. It ran a little further north west to the Inchture Brick and Tile Works.

Some steam hauled trains did run to the terminus until 1866 when replaced by a horse drawn carriage. From 1895 a horse-drawn tramcar, known as the Railway Bus, was used until the last day of 1916. A well known postcard view shows the tram and its driver Bob Speed.

The building still stands, the row in use as housing.

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