The signal box was to the south and to the east was a goods shed with four sidings and a loading bank.

After it was demolished, the signal box from Carrhouse was dismantled and installed at the nearby Beamish Museum.

[2] On 9 December 1964, twenty three coal wagons uncoupled from a shunter and ran down the line until colliding with another goods train.

Sixty men had to work on cleaning up the debris while the trains were diverted via Lanchester.

This article on a railway station in North East England is a stub.