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Ashford railway station (Surrey)
Railway station in Surrey, England
Railway station in Surrey, England
| Field | Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Ashford (Surrey) | ||
| symbol_location | gb | ||
| symbol | rail | ||
| image | Ashford station building (Surrey).jpg | ||
| caption | Ashford Station | ||
| borough | Ashford, Spelthorne | ||
| country | England | ||
| grid_name | Grid reference | ||
| grid_position | |||
| manager | South Western Railway | ||
| platforms | 2 | ||
| code | AFS | ||
| classification | DfT category C2 | ||
| opened | 22 August 1848 | ||
| <!--{{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2019/20 | passengers= 0.986 million}}-- |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2020/21 | passengers= 0.237 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2021/22 | passengers= 0.616 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2022/23 | passengers= 0.725 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2023/24 | passengers= 0.762 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2024/25 | passengers= 0.882 million}} |
| footnotes | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Ashford railway station serves the town of Ashford, Surrey, in the borough of Spelthorne in South East England. It is 17 mi down the line from .
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, which had been known as Ashford (Kent) until 1996.
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. 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.
Services
All services at Ashford are operated by South Western Railway.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
- 4 tph to (2 of these are stopping services via and 2 are semi-fast via )
- 2 tph to
- 2 tph to
Additional services, including trains to and from and 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 instead of Weybridge.
Gallery
Image:Ashford (Surrey) station.jpg|Station building (centre) and White Lodge (left) Image:Ashford (Surrey) station eastbound.jpg|Looking towards London Image:Ashford (Surrey) station westbound.jpg|Looking towards Staines Image:Ashford station signage (Surrey).jpg|Platform signage
References
References
- National Rail - [http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/AFS.html Station Facilities: Ashford (Surrey)] {{webarchive. link. (4 February 2013)
- "Trains to Ashford (Surrey) station". South Western Railway.
- National Rail - [https://archive.today/20120804060900/http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldb/summary.aspx?T=AFS Live departures: Ashford (Surrey)]
- (2006). "Aspects of Ashford". Borough Books.
- Strudwick, Matt. (17 February 2015). "Ashford railway station to get £60,000 revamp". [[Surrey Advertiser.
- {{NRtimes. December 2023. 149
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