 Other alternative names for the station were Ardrossan Montgomerie Street and Ardrossan Caledonian.The station closed to regular passenger services on 4 July 1932, however it was reopened for a time within two years when a special return fare price was introduced.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.