Portsmouth Arms railway station
Portsmouth Arms railway station is a small wayside station in Devon. It is in the parish of Burrington but remote from any village so is named after the nearby 'Portsmouth Arms' pub. It is on the Tarka Line to, from at milepost 200.5 from.
History
[file:The Portsmouth Arms 20250615 130448.jpg|thumb|left|The Portsmouth Arms pub from which the station takes its name]The 4th Earl of Portsmouth built the turnpike between Exeter and Barnstaple and was later a supporter of proposals for a railway along the same route. A pub was built in the Taw valley and named in his honour. It was at this spot that the North Devon Railway opened a station in September 1855, more than a year after it started running trains through the site. It had a small passing loop and a single long siding at the south end for goods traffic. The passenger facilities were in a building on the northbound platform while the southbound platform had a waiting shelter and a goods store. A house for the station master was added later and a signal box was opened on 1 October 1873.
The goods yard was closed on 3 July 1961 and the siding removed in 1963. The signal box remained in use until 3 April 1966. In 2006 Formosa, a Pullman car built in 1921, was placed behind the platform to be restored but was moved elsewhere in 2024.