 Commercially on the station site, there was a small brickworks built to the east on land leased from the railway, giving it direct rail access; Today the still open brickworks is operated by Ibstock Brick Ltd, producing traditional Stock Bricks.A railway-built and owned "Railway Hotel" opened on the west side of the station forecourt, opposite the main station building.After closure of the railway, it was sold off by the British Railways Property Board and renamed the "Bluebell Inn", reopened as a public house.