The station replaced Garliestontown that lay to the north and opened as a terminus in 1876.

A passing loop was present and a single platform at the station.

[2] The station master's house survives as a private dwelling named Kilfillan Croft.

[3] A Millisle Road Halt railway station existed on the Belfast and County Down Railway which ran from Belfast to Donaghadee in Northern Ireland.

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