Ashford railway station (Surrey)

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.

Ashford (Surrey)
Ashford Station
Location
PlaceAshford
Local authoritySpelthorne
Grid referenceTQ065719
Operations
Station codeAFS
Managed bySouth Western Railway
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryC2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 1.044 million
2015/16 1.067 million
2016/17 1.057 million
2017/18 1.033 million
2018/19 1.076 million
History
Key datesOpened 22 August 1848 (22 August 1848)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ashford (Surrey) from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Although the station signage displays only Ashford, the station is referred to in timetables, and as printed on railway tickets, either as Ashford (Surrey), or Ashford (Middlesex) (from the historic county), 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 Railways.

Services

The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by South Western Railway, who provide all train services from the station. The station is between Staines and Feltham on the line from Waterloo to Windsor.

The typical off-peak service from the station is:

  • 4tph (trains per hour) to London Waterloo
  • 2tph to Windsor and Eton Riverside
  • 2tph to Weybridge
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Feltham   South Western Railway
Waterloo to Reading Line		   Staines
  • Looking towards London
  • Looking towards Staines
  • Platform signage

References
  1. National Rail - Station Facilities: Ashford (Surrey) Archived 4 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  2. South West Trains - Station information: Ashford (Surrey)
  3. National Rail - Live departures: Ashford (Surrey)

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