Frome Station was built for the Wiltshire, Somerset & Weymouth Railway, although the line had already been taken over by the Great Western Railway by the time the station opened. It is 120ft long and its timber roof spans 48ft across the single track and two platforms, one of which is unused.

The hipped roof is made of 12 composite trusses, set on square timber columns. The trusses support timber purlins, which carry the corrugated iron roof. A louvred and glazed clerestory window runs the full length of the ridge. Alternate trusses have a wrought iron king tie and a spider, or junction, to which the horizontal ties from adjoining trusses are attached.

As a quiet, mostly unmanned, station on the Bristol to Weymouth line, and bypassed by London trains, Frome Station has few modern features to distract from its original design.

Research: AM