Services
Five passenger and two goods trains were scheduled to operate daily in the October 1880 timetable, as they still were immediately before World War I. By 1898 through coaches were detached from trains from London Paddington and the North of England at Taunton then conveyed over the line to Barnstaple Junction and Ilfracombe attached to local trains. Through trains from Paddington to Ilfracombe were running in the summer by 1905. Before World war II the passenger service had increased to seven trains.
The following example timetable shows the weekday passenger services in October 1920 (there was no service on Sundays).
| Down trains | Up trains | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taunton | 08:00 | 10:40 | 13:30 | 17:30 | 19:55 | Ilfracombe | – | – | 09:25 | 11:40 | 16:40 |
| Norton Fitzwarren | 08:06 | 10:46 | 13:36 | 17:36 | 20:02 | Barnstaple | 07:00 | 08:50 | 11:00 | 15:00 | 18:00 |
| Milverton | 08:16 | 10:56 | 13:46 | 17:46 | 20:12 | Swimbridge | 07:10 | 09:00 | 11:08 | 15:16 | 18:11 |
| Wiveliscombe | 08:25 | 11:05 | 13:55 | 17:55 | 20:21 | Filleigh | 07:19 | 09:09 | 11:17 | 15:25 | 18:23 |
| Venn Cross | 08:37 | 11:17 | 14:07 | 18:07 | 20:33 | South Molton | 07:29 | 09:24 | 11:27 | 15:38 | 18:38 |
| Morebath | 08:46 | 11:26 | 14:16 | 18:16 | 20:42 | Bishop's Nympton | 07:38 | 09:33 | 11:39 | 15:49 | 18:50 |
| Dulverton | 08:56 | 11:37 | 14:27 | 18:27 | 20:53 | East Anstey | 07:49 | 09:46 | 11:50 | 16:04 | 19:03 |
| East Anstey | 09:06 | 11:51 | 14:37 | 18:37 | 21:03 | Dulverton | 07:58 | 09:55 | 12:01 | 16:16 | 19:16 |
| Bishop's Nympton | 09:15 | 12:00 | 14:46 | 18:48 | 21:12 | Morebath | 08:07 | 10:04 | 12:10 | 16:26 | 19:24 |
| South Molton | 09:25 | 12:10 | 14:56 | 19:00 | 21:23 | Venn Cross | 08:16 | 10:13 | 12:19 | 16:36 | 19:33 |
| Filleigh | 09:35 | 12:20 | 15:06 | 19:10 | 21:33 | Wiveliscombe | 08:28 | 10:23 | 12:29 | 16:47 | 19:44 |
| Swimbridge | 09:44 | 12:29 | 15:16 | 19:19 | 21:43 | Milverton | 08:35 | 10:23 | 12:29 | 16:47 | 19:44 |
| Barnstaple | 09:50 | 12:35 | 15:23 | 19:25 | 21:50 | Norton Fitzwarren | 08:45 | 10:40 | – | 17:07 | 20:01 |
| Ilfracombe | 11:17 | 14:10 | 16:36 | 20:35 | – | Taunton | 08:50 | 10:45 | 12:48 | 17:12 | 20:05 |
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