The track continues in use as part of the Reading to Taunton Line but the station closed to passengers in 1952 and to goods in 1963.

[7] The Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, in Chippenham, holds the parish registers of East Coulston for the following periods.

The churchyard has the grave of Francis Savill Kent, murdered in 1860 when almost four years old at Road Hill (now in Somerset, then in Wiltshire).

His half-sister Constance Kent confessed to the crime and was imprisoned; the case aroused press interest and inspired books and television dramatizations.

[8] The parish is now part of the benefice of Bratton, Edington and Imber, Erlestoke, and Coulston.