It served the hamlet of Auchentiber and the surrounding rural area as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.

[1] The OS maps of 1896 and 1910 show a substantial infrastructure with a double-track mainline and four sidings running off to a loading dock and a goods shed with a crane, a signal box at the far end of the southern end of the eastern platform, signal posts, weighing machine, pedestrian overbridge and several platform buildings.

The old clay quarry near South Auchenmade Farm is now flooded; little evidence of the brickworks and associated railway sidings remains.

A feature of World War II was the use of the line for what locals called the night time 'ghost trains' that carried injured service personnel to the Glasgow hospitals from where they had been landed at the port of Ardrossan.

The platforms of Auchenmade station remain intact today as do the railway workers' cottages and the loading dock.