[3] In March 1873, the local laird, Mr. Robert Robertson Glasgow of Montgreenan had written, enclosing a petition, to the Board of Directors of the G&SWR requesting that a station be built at the Burnbrae.

In February 1874 the Montgreenan Coal Company applied for a siding to be built and this was laid and in use by 1875, however a dispute arose regarding the payment of the signalman's wages.

Freight traffic was such that the railway company purchased the dwelling of a local joiner, Mr. James Watson, for their agent in 1884.

In 1886 the Traffic Committee submitted a request for a house and offices to be constructed at Montgreenan and at a cost of £708 14s 4d the present station was built.

A sawmill at Burnbrae may have provided some traffic and curiously the Nobel Explosive company of Stevenston had a store at the station.