It is situated on a loop off the main Bristol to Taunton Line, 137 miles 33 chains (137.41 mi; 221.1 km) from the zero point at London Paddington via Box.

After closure, the land was eventually gifted to the town and planted with trees, giving rise to its unofficial name of "The Plantation".

Next to this is a scale replica of North Star, the first locomotive to run on the Great Western Railway.

It was erected in 2006 to commemorate to 200th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the engineer who designed this first station.

[3] This was designed by the railway's engineer, Francis Fox, and was similar to the one built by him at about the same time at Exeter.

[4] A new Bristol and Exeter Hotel was opened to serve the new station; it was later renamed The Town Crier.

It shows signs of a later extension to allow extra signal levers needed when the station was enlarged.

[3] This was not the end of the old branch line as for several years a trolley was taken along the old tracks to collect mail from a postal train at the old Junction station each night.

The area once used by the 1866 and Locking Road stations, along with the sidings, has now been replaced by a Tesco store and a large car and coach park.

Some hipped bays remain on the road side of the station entrance as a reminder of how it all once looked.

[1] In September 2024, planning permission was granted for lifts to be installed at the station, enabling step-free interchange between the platforms.

These two routes combine to give two trains each hour between Bristol Temple Meads and Weston-super-Mare for most of the day during the week.