It is home to the Knotty Coach Trust, the Foxfield Miniature Railway, a museum, café, bar and a shop.

[1] When the colliery closed in August 1965,[2] local volunteers formed the Foxfield Light Railway Society to preserve the line.

The station at Caverswall offers visitor facilities such as a Buffet serving hot and cold food and drinks and a Real Ale bar "The One Legged Shunter".

The Foxfield Railway has the largest collection of standard gauge steam locomotives in Staffordshire, most of which are of industrial origins.

Although located in Staffordshire, the railway was used for the filming of sequences for the BBC television series Return to Cranford, which is set in Cheshire.

Matilda 'Matty' Jenkyns (played by Judi Dench), invited several of the main characters to ride on the train in an attempt to alter their opinions about the benefits of the railway being extended into the town of Cranford.