woody bay was a station on the old lynton and barnstaple railway, a narrow gauge railway line that ran through exmoor from barnstaple to lynton and lynmouth in north devon. the station was inland, about 2 km from woody bay itself. it opened with the line (as "wooda bay" until the name was changed in 1901) on 7 march 1898, and closed when the line was closed on 29 september 1935. from 1923 until closure, the line was part of the southern railway.