The station was located west of the top of the line's most striking feature - a three quarters of a mile, rope-hauled incline at a gradient of 1 in 4 (25%).

From 1876 to 1883 a horse-drawn tramway brought iron ore from Kennesome Hill mine to the station, where it was transferred to WSMR wagons.

[9] Passengers were carried from Comberow up the rope-hauled incline to Brendon Hill and on through Luxborough Road to Gupworthy on a wagon, free of charge, but at their own risk.

Iron and steel making was given to boom and bust and suffered a significant downturn in the 1870s, exacerbated by imports of cheaper and better ore from abroad.

[13] In 1907 the Somerset Mineral Syndicate made an attempt to revive the line, reopening Colton mine and starting a new bore at Timwood.

Very little remains on the ground to indicate either the station, the standard and narrow gauge railways or the mines, houses and shop which once existed at Gupworthy.