Ashford railway station serves the town of Ashford, Surrey, in the borough of Spelthorne in South East England. It is 17 miles 40 chains (28.2 km) down the line from London Waterloo.

Although the station signage displays only Ashford, the station is referred to in timetables and is printed on railway tickets as Ashford (Surrey) in order to differentiate it from Ashford International railway station in Kent.[1][2][3]

History

The station was opened in 1848 by the Windsor Staines and South Western Railway Company. Absorbed by the London and South Western Railway, it became part of the Southern Railway during the grouping of 1923. The station then passed on 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.

At the east end of the main station building is the station house (known as White Lodge), built in 1857 to accommodate Prince Albert on his visit to open the nearby Welsh School (now St. James' School for Senior Boys), although it is unclear whether he actually stayed there.[4] The station also previously had a goods yard to the north which is now an aggregates yard and builders' merchant.

In 2015 the station was refurbished, and a ramp was installed to improve disability access to the ticket office and waiting room.[5]

Services

All services at Ashford are operated by South Western Railway.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[6]

Additional services, including trains to and from Camberley and Aldershot call at the station during the peak hours.

On Sundays, the stopping services between Weybridge and London Waterloo are reduced to hourly and westbound trains run to and from Woking instead of Weybridge.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Feltham   South Western Railway
  Staines

Gallery

  • Station building (centre) and White Lodge (left)
    Station building (centre) and White Lodge (left)
  • Looking towards London
    Looking towards London
  • Looking towards Staines
    Looking towards Staines
  • Platform signage
    Platform signage

References

  1. ^ National Rail - Station Facilities: Ashford (Surrey) Archived 4 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Trains to Ashford (Surrey) station". South Western Railway. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  3. ^ National Rail - Live departures: Ashford (Surrey)
  4. ^ Barker, D. M.; Barker, J. L. (2006). Aspects of Ashford. Addlestone, Surrey: Borough Books. ISBN 978-0-9537547-1-7.
  5. ^ Strudwick, Matt (17 February 2015). "Ashford railway station to get £60,000 revamp". getsurrey.co.uk. Surrey Live. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  6. ^ Table 149 National Rail timetable, December 2023

External links

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