[1] The Nailsworth railway promoters were ambitious, and sited the station on an embankment above the town with the intention that the railway would be extended southwards towards Tetbury and Malmesbury.

The station consisted of a large Cotswold stone building, with several rooms, and it also acted as the railway company's headquarters.

There was also a large goods yard, and a month after the railway opened, Nailsworth's first market was held.

[2] Thoughts of prosperity and expansion proved fleeting, however, and the railway company was subsumed very quickly into the Midland Railway, into whose main Bristol to Gloucester main line the branch line linked at Stonehouse.

Passenger services were suspended on the line as an economy measure to save fuel in June 1947, and were officially withdrawn from 8 June 1949.