The superb station at Frome has recently undergone some renovation

and repair work and looks very smart. This especially when compared to the dilapidated condition that BR had allowed it to get into during the 1970 and 1980s when it was in a parlous state supported by scaffolding and severely affected by dry rot. The station was designed by J R Hannaford and opened in 1850 just as the mighty GWR took over from the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway who had authorised its construction. It remains one of the oldest through train shed railway stations still in operation in Britain and was built to broad gauge standards with the platforms the requisite distance apart despite only one now in use.