 On 1 December 1889 the station was renamed as plain "Crowcombe" to avoid confusion with on the Moretonhampstead branch in Devon.The loop was extended in 1934 to cope with long holiday trains running to , leaving the signal box now sited midway down the western platform; the eastern ends of the platforms to this day are made up of different materials.Nationalisation in 1948 saw it become a part of the Western Region of British Railways.