The Great Western Railway operated the D&SR from the outset and took it over in 1901.
Morebath Junction is the only location in Britain to have had a signalwoman in the 19th century.
[1] Mrs Town was appointed in 1890, and in October 1913 The Railway Magazine reported that she was "very proud" of her job after 23 years' service and hoped to continue indefinitely.
It's recorded that passengers walking to the halt stored their boots under the bench in the waiting hut, and retrieved them on their return for the walk home across the wet fields.
Trains on the Exe Valley line continued to terminate at Dulverton, the next station to the west.