[1] The opening ceremony for the L&AR was held here, with the first passenger train service also departing here for Glasgow.

[citation needed] On 1 October 1906 the station became known as Ardrossan Town,[1] and was later closed between 1 January 1917 and 1 February 1919 due to wartime economy.

[2][3] The line was taken into the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, seeing use for trains going to Montgomerie Pier and the nearby Shell Mex plant until 1968.

All of the track north of the station was removed in 1970, however the spur line from the former Ardrossan Railway to the south remained intact serving the nearby bitumen plant until the 1980s.

[5] The bridge that passed over the station was demolished in March 2008 and platforms underneath partially removed.