The station itself consisted of two platforms, a goods yard and cattle dock, wagon works, and a two-road engine shed with coaling and watering facilities.

To the east of the station and locomotive servicing facilities were the former Wheeler & Gregory Wagon Works, and a private timber yard.

After the decision to close the S&DJR in 1966, a connection was made to the west of the station with the GWR mainline.

[1][2] After the last coal from the Somerset Coalfield was extracted from Writhlington Colliery on 28 September 1973, the spur was dismantled.

A head-on collision at Foxcote near Radstock was the worst accident in the line's history.