Notes: Littleham station had two curving platforms with the main station building on the up side. This comprised a two storey stationmaster's house with a single storey extension with a wide hipped canopy with a sawtooth valance. There was a wooden waiting shelter with a sloping roof on the down side.

A signal box at the west end of the down platform adjacent to the level crossing controlled the crossing and access to the goods yard which was sited behind the down platform. The yard which was accessed from the east comprised three sidings, one short siding ran behind the down line terminating at a cattle dock behind the platform. The second longer siding passed the other side of the dock before passing a small goods shed to terminate behind the signal box with the third shorter siding running along the southern boundary of the yard. There was also a 2-ton yard crane. The yard closed on 27 January 1964, three years before the station closed to passengers.

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SIDMOUTH & BUDLEIGH SALTERTON RAILWAYS
The first railway on Sidmouth was narrow gauge built in connection with an 1836 dock venture, this was short lived and the dock was never built. The Sidmouth Railway was authorised in 1862 but the company collapsed after some of the lines earthworks had been built; it was revived in 1871 and the line finally opened on 6th July 1874.

The station was inconveniently sited a mile inland; Sidmouth deliberately discouraged the railway from coming close enough to the sea front in an attempt to put off trippers, it preferred to remain a select resort, even into the second half of the 20th century. Sidmouth had been attracting a select number of visitors for 80 years, especially for winter residence

The line was built and owned by the Sidmouth Railway Company but operated on its behalf by the L&SWR with traffic running down the Otter Valley from Sidmouth Junction to Ottery St. Mary and Tipton St. Johns and then over the steeply graded section to Sidmouth. Although traffic was never heavy it remained steady and was sufficiently high for the Sidmouth

Unlike Sidmouth, the resort of Budleigh Salterton welcomed the locally sponsored Budleigh Salterton Railway which continued following the Otter Valley from a junction with the Sidmouth branch at Tipton St. Johns. It opened on 15th May 1897 with an intermediate station at East Budleigh and a second added two years later at Newton Poppleford.

Passenger numbers on the branch remained healthy well into the 1950's although rationalisation in the 1960 reduced the line to little more than a skeleton service with diesel multiple units being introduced on 4th November 1963. A cross country service from Cleethorpes - Exmouth was introduced in 1960 but this only lasted two years. There had never been any

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Sidmouth, Newton Poppleford, East Budleigh & Budleigh Salterton