The station opened on 28 July 1874. A wrought-iron turntable, in diameter, was built at the station by the Railway Steel and Plant Company of Manchester. The station was threatened with closure in the 1960s under the Beeching Axe. Until 2000, trains from would split in half at, with one portion going to and the other to Thurso. In the age of locomotive-hauled trains prior to the introduction of diesel multiple units by British Rail, a locomotive was based at Georgemas Junction to take the Thurso portion to and from the junction. The practice of splitting trains ended when s were introduced on the line since then all services run in full between Inverness and Wick via Thurso, in both directions.
Facilities
There is one platform, which is long enough to accommodate a nine-carriage train. The station is fully wheelchair-accessible, but it is not monitored by CCTV. The station has a ticket office, staffed between approximately 10:00 and 17:00 every day except Sundays. There are no self-service ticket machines or smartcard top-up facilities, although there are smartcard validators. Other facilities include: a free car park with 3 parking spaces, a sheltered bike stand with 10 spaces, a payphone that accepts both cash and card, waiting rooms with designated seating areas, toilets and a post box. There is a bus stop located directly outside the station, although the majority of bus services call at the nearby Miller Academy stop, to the north.
Services
Despite being located at the end of the branch line, Thurso is not the terminus for any passenger services. Instead, trains run between and ; upon reaching they branch off the main route to serve Thurso, then reverse and run back to Georgemas Junction before continuing to their respective destinations. This means that all services call at Georgemas Junction station twice per trip. On weekdays and Saturdays, the station is served by eight trains per day to, of which four continue to , and four continue to. On Sundays the frequency drops to just two trains per day to Georgemas Junction, of which one goes to Inverness and one to Wick. An hourly shuttle between Wick and Thurso making use of Vivarail's Class 230 Battery Multiple Units has been proposed by the Friends of the Far North line, but to this date nothing has been confirmed.
