Great Somerford had a platform and station building, both constructed of timber and sold for £10 when this section of line was closed. The station was formerly a halt and a bungalow was provided for the crossing keeper. The goods depot was opened on January 1. 1879. The large milk traffic (sometimes as many as 100 carts of milk churns came from farms each day) made it necessary for a stationmaster to be appointed. He had a large family and needed a bigger house, so this was arranged by the simple expedient of adding an upper storey to the bungalow. The station reverted to a halt when the goods depot and siding was closed on May 22, 1922.
From Dauntsey to Great Somerford the track was laid with flat-bottom rails. These were lifted after the branch was shortened, but a short spur between Great Somerford and Kingsmead Crossing remained for stabling "cripples" until about three years ago. After lifting, as an engine pushed seven wagons towards the station house at Great Somerford to pick up the old rails, the wagons crashed into the stop-block and went forward about fifty yards, one wagon knocking a hole in the old station house. North of Great Somerford the line passed under the Badminton line and came to Kingsmead Crossing, where the new branch from Little Somerford joined the former Kingsmead Siding, which was the truncated old branch.
Little Somerford has four through roads, the outer ones having platforms; either of these were used for Malmesbury trains. The branch ran westwards alongside the up line and then came to a board stating that goods trains should pin down brakes. The line curves through a shallow cutting and descends a gradient of 1 in 50 to Kingsmead Crossing, which is about 700 yd. west of Little Somerford and 200 yd. north of the bridge carrying the main line over the old branch. Just before the level crossing was Kingsmead Siding Ground Frame, with two levers - a point lever and a facing point lock. The crossing gates had to be widened when the spur to Dauntsey was opened, to give sufficient clearance to the curve. By the side of the crossing keeper's house are two levers operating distance signals which were lowered when the gates were closed to road traffic. This arrangement operated at the other level crossings.
