The station was situated on the southern side of a level crossing to the south of St. Michael's tunnel, one of the line's main civil engineering features.

Closed in 1954, nothing remains of St. Michael's today: a footpath and cycleway runs through the site.

[4] St. Michael's was little more than a halt station consisting of no more than a single platform made of sleepers and, for some time, a small corrugated iron hut which served as a ticket office.

[5] So modest were the facilities that the wooden picket gate leading from the road for the use of passengers has been described as "more obvious than the halt itself".

It had fallen into a dangerous and decrepit state by 1953, the condition of the platform sleepers having seriously deteriorated.