After closure, Wormit Station was later dismantled and rebuilt at the heritage Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway to the west of Edinburgh.

[6][7] A windmill located on Wormit Hill generated the power, with a steam engine supplementing this when the wind was low.

[citation needed] During the Second World War, King Haakon VII of Norway visited a house in Wormit used as a base by officers of the Norwegian Army.

[11] Trevor Cox, a professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford, identified the reservoir as one of the "strangest sounding places in the UK".

[12] Wormit has its own primary school (established in 1896),[13] church, blacksmith, garage, hair dresser, restaurant and local shop.