The station opened on 3 September 1888 and was simply known as
Ardrossan. The opening ceremony for the L&AR was held here, with the first passenger train service also departing here for
Glasgow. On 1 October 1906 the station became known as
Ardrossan Town, 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. Today parts of the station platforms are still in existence, though heavily overgrown. The site of the station building is now occupied by the depot for
Clyde Coast Coaches. The bridge that passed over the station was demolished in March 2008 and platforms underneath partially removed. The platforms remained until 2017, when they made way for a new housing development. ==References==