Barnstaple railway station is the terminus of a long branch line, known as the Tarka Line, 39 miles (63 km) north west of Exeter St Davids, in Devon, England.
It was known as Barnstaple Junction from 1874 to 1970 as it was the junction between lines to Ilfracombe, Bideford, Taunton and Exeter
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