Following closure to passengers the loop became a siding and the signal box was downgraded to a ground frame.

[3] Passenger numbers reached their peak in the 1930s with seven daily services provided each way between Exeter and Heathfield.

[4] Crockham Quarry at Trusham provided mineral traffic for the line up until the final years, however by the end of WW2 much of this was being transported away by road.

By November 1967 the sidings at Crockham were in such poor condition that the permanent way supervisor at Newton Abbot declared that they could no longer be used.

The station building is now a private house and the trackbed has been infilled to platform height.