Description
The single platform is on the east (right) of trains arriving from Exeter. There is level access to the station car park. The centre of Barnstaple is reached by crossing the Long Bridge over the River Taw 330 yards (300 m) from the station.
A footpath from the station leads onto the cycleway along the abandoned railway line to Bideford which forms part of the South West Coast Path.
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