 Ilfracombe Museum contains many photographs and relics from the line, including a gradient post and one of the concrete station name boards from Ilfracombe Station (both visible outside the building).Members of a group on the social networking site Facebook entitled "Reversing Beeching - the Ilfracombe Line" first mooted the idea of forming a real-world preservation society.On 22 March 2015 members of the group held their first meeting and agreed to apply for charity status to help forward the project's aims.