| Northam | |
| Status: | Disused |
| Borough: | Northam, Torridge |
| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 51.0442°N -4.2189°W |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Platforms: | 1 |
| Original: | Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway |
| Pregroup: | British Electric Traction |
| Years: | 1901 |
| Years1: | 20 May 1901[1] [2] |
| Events1: | Opened |
| Years2: | 28 March 1917 |
| Events2: | Closed[3] |
Northam railway station was a railway station on the Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway in north Devon, close to Appledore. The station served the village of Northam, Parish of Northam, a community within the Appledore peninsula. It was from Bideford.[4]
Northam station was the terminus of the line in 1901[4] prior to the extension to Appledore in 1908. The station stood a little way from the village of Northam. Many of the passengers were golfers on their way to the links on Northam Burrows.[5]
Northam had one platform 180feet in length, with a shelter, on the down side of the line.[4] It originally had a short run-around loop, a signal box and one semaphore signal,[4] but with the completion of the extension to Appledore in 1908 it was reduced to a single line without sidings or signalling.[4] [6] A goods yard was provided at one time.[7] The line, without gates, crossed Pimpley Road on the level before reaching the Richmond Road request halt.[4]
In January 1901 a one-carriage train ran from Bideford to Northam carrying a few friends of the railway's directors.[8]
Jack Shears, who lived at Northam, was one of the trackmen who worked to maintain the permanent way.[9]
No photographs appear to exist of Northam railway station.