The station originally had two platforms either side of a passing loop, there was one siding with a head shunt to the west, extending behind the station building.[3]
The station was renamed Tipton St Johns on 2 January 1881.[1] The station expanded in 1897 when it became a junction as the Budleigh Salterton Railway opened the line to Budleigh Salterton.[4][5] Additional sidings either side of the running line were provided, there was a signal box and a footbridge linking the platforms.[6]
A camping coach was positioned here by the Southern Region from 1954 to 1964, and probably for some of the summers from 1948 to 1953. From 1961 a Pullman camping coach was here.[7]
The station closed to passengers on 6 March 1967 and freight services were withdrawn from the line on 8 May 1967.[1][8]
Present state
The station building and platform remain as private accommodation known as station house.[9]
^Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 510. ISBN978-1-78803-768-6.
^Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 81. ISBN978-1-78803-768-6.
^McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. pp. 59 & 65. ISBN1-870119-53-3.