Ashtead railway station
General information | |||||
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Location | Ashtead, District of Mole Valley England | ||||
Grid reference | TQ180589 | ||||
Managed by | Southern | ||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | AHD | ||||
Classification | DfT category E | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 1 February 1859 | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 1.308 million | ||||
2019/20 | 1.273 million | ||||
2020/21 | 0.261 million | ||||
2021/22 | 0.697 million | ||||
2022/23 | 0.847 million | ||||
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Ashtead railway station is in Ashtead, Surrey, England. It is 16 miles 19 chains (26.1 km) down the line from London Waterloo.
History
[edit]Designed by David Field in 1858 and opened by the Epsom and Leatherhead Railway, part of the London and South Western Railway, it became a joint station between that railway and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and was absorbed into the Southern Railway by the grouping of 1923. The station passed to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Rail.
Before its renovation, the station was designed by Nigel Wikeley in the typical CLASP manner, with a long and low design constructed from prefabricated materials.[1] The main ticket office building was rebuilt in 2013.[2]
Services
[edit]Services at Ashtead are operated by Southern and South Western Railway using Class 377 and 455 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[3]
- 2 tph to London Victoria via Sutton
- 2 tph to London Waterloo via Wimbledon
- 3 tph to Dorking of which 1 continues to Horsham
- 1 tph to Guildford
On Saturday evenings (after approximately 18:45) and on Sundays, there is no service south of Dorking to Horsham.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Southern | ||||
South Western Railway |
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References
[edit]- ^ Lawrence, David (2018). British Rail Architecture, 1948-97 (First ed.). Manchester, UK: Crecy Publishing LTD. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-86093-685-5.
- ^ Powell, Goff (April 2014). "Ashtead Railway Station" (PDF). Leatherhead & District Local History Society. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
- ^ Table 152, 180 National Rail timetable, December 2021
Bibliography
[edit]- Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
External links
[edit]- Train times and station information for Ashtead railway station from National Rail
- Railway stations in Surrey
- Former London and South Western Railway stations
- Former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1859
- Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway
- Railway stations served by South Western Railway
- DfT Category E stations
- 1859 establishments in England