[1][2] The local geography in the area proved problematic in siting a railway station in Ilfracombe.

[6] In 1929, the Southern Railway undertook track improvements and expanded the carriage sidings to the west of the station to seven.

[7] The 1904 Clearing House Handbook of stations listed Ilfracombe as being able to handle all main types of goods traffic (vans, horseboxes, parcels, etc), and was furnished with a crane capable of lifting 10 tonnes (11 tons).

[14] After closure, the station site was sold off and became the location of a factory making filtering equipment.

[19] In the dieselisation era of the early 1960s, some summer Saturday services numbered 17 trains to Ilfracombe.

[20] By the late 1960s, only five trains were running and no service ran on a Sunday, even during the summer holiday period.