This line terminated at a new station a short distance north of Chard Town and was served by trains from Taunton.

Both railway companies provided staff and there were even separate signal boxes controlling train movements at each end of the station[3] The LSWR was built to 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge but the B&ER was a 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge until 19 July 1891.

[4] From 1 January 1917 the Great Western Railway (GWR, which had amalgamated with the B&ER in 1876) took over the operation of trains on the LSWR branch.

[3] This allowed some economies to be made, although the trains to Taunton and Chard Junction were still mostly advertised as separate services.

[1] The station was built in stone and brick in one of the styles favoured by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, although he was not the engineer of the line as he died seven years before it was opened.

[6] A locomotive shed was provided opposite the north end of the passenger platform when the station opened.