[2] The standard-pattern GWR medium-scale signal box was also added at the end of the platform, operated via a 25-lever stud-locking frame.

[7] After the entire line and its trackbed were bought by Somerset County Council, the West Somerset Railway agreed to lease the line as a heritage railway, with the later possibility of operating timetabled service trains into Taunton via operating company, the WSR plc.

After the society secured a new 33-lever frame in 1981, following extensive fund-raising, the station's loop was extended to its current length of 275 yards (251 m), to allow for dual-platform arrival/departures.

HM Railway Inspectorate approved the new plans in 1997, and the full system, including control of the Norton Fitzwarren section, came into use from August 1998.

This extension provided for the inclusion of the Taunton-facing platform No.3, but this is only operated as a siding as movements onto the running lines are not direct; it is normally used to house the "Quantock Belle" dining cars.

[11] In 2019, the WSR entered into a partnership with the modern Great Western Railway (GWR) to operate services to Bishops Lydeard on occasional summer Saturdays from Taunton beginning on 27 July 2019 which ended on October 5, 2019.