This was provided with a stone building containing the offices and a house for the station master,[3] A passing loop was opened on 1 October 1873 and a wooden signal box with 13 levers built opposite the west end of the platform by the points to the loop.

There was no room here for a platform to serve the new second track so it had to be built on the east side of the road bridge.

The new platform was provided with a waiting shelter which incorporated a small booking office where tickets were sold for about eight minutes before trains were due to call.

[3] A slaughterhouse for sheep and pigs used to be situated in the northern arch of the road bridge (some meat hooks can be seen in the wall}.

Only a limited number of trains (four each way on Saturdays and Sundays but more during the week) between Barnstaple and Exeter Central call at Lapford and this is only on request to the conductor or by signalling the driver as it approaches.