GWR has announced that are issues with trains cancelled or delayed on the Exeter to Barnstaple line due to a train driver being taken ill.

It said that the 3.35pm Barnstaple to Exeter Central due at 4.45pm will be started from Exeter St David’s.

It adds: “It will no longer call at Barnstaple, Umberleigh, Eggesford, Lapford, Morchard Road, Copplestone, Yeoford and Crediton.

“This is due to the train driver being taken ill.”

It is understood that an ambulance crew attended to the driver at Eggesford Station.

Further updates as we have them.