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This was a single platform station with a passing loop and siding continuing through to Garlieston Mill and Garlieston Harbour. The platform and station building were on the north side. The platform was in timber. The station was on the extension of the Wigtownshire Railway from the original Garliestown [1st] station, renamed Millisle.

Passengers walked from the station to the harbour. Steamers operated to the Isle of Man. These were suspended for the Great War and resumed between 1921 and 1935.

The station was approached from Millisle to the west where Millisle Exchange Platform was between the Garlieston branch and the mainline south to Whithorn.

The town of Garlieston is to the north.
When the railway opened the town name was 'Garliestown' it has since been abbreviated to 'Garlieston'. The official railway spelling was Garliestown.

Garlieston Bay, north of the pier, was busy in the Second World War between 1941 and 1944 with testing and practice assembly of the sections of the 'Mulberry' harbours which were assembled in Normandy following the D-Day landings in 1944. These floating harbours were assembled from nothing on site using components manufactured all over Great Britain and towed across the channel after the beaches had been taken. Some pontoons remain in the north of the bay.

The station site is now a low embankment.

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