[1] The station has two platforms, each long enough for 1+1⁄2 coaches,[2] with a waiting shelter and original lamp-posts, and is served by Great Western Railway.
Residents have voluntarily decorated the station with pots of flowers and, to mark its 100-year anniversary on 9 July 2006, decorated the station with bunting and dressed in Victorian clothing for the celebrations.
[3] Opened on the Wessex Main Line by the Great Western Railway as Avoncliff Halt on 9 July 1906, it remained part of that company during the Grouping of 1923.
The station then passed to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
[citation needed] A generally hourly service is provided by Great Western Railway, northbound to Bath and Bristol and southbound to Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge and Westbury, with some trains continuing to Weymouth and Southampton.