Ash railway station

Ash
Ash railway station
Location
Place	Ash
Local authority	Guildford
Grid reference	SU899508
Operations
Station code	ASH
Managed by	South West Trains
Number of platforms	2 (Originally 4)
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.271 million
– Interchange	44,054
2011/12	0.273 million
– Interchange	37,291
2012/13	0.284 million
– Interchange	33,379
2013/14	0.275 million
– Interchange	32,994
2014/15	0.289 million
– Interchange	31,889
History
20 August 1849	Station opens as Ash
July 1855	Name changed to Ash and Aldershot
September 1858	Name changed to Aldershot (Ash)
June 1859	Name changed to Ash and Aldershot
June 1863	Name changed to Ash Junction
1 December 1926	Name changed to Ash
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ash from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Ash railway station

Ascot to Guildford Line
Legend
Waterloo to Reading Line to Reading & Waterloo Ascot 28 mi 79 ch 46.65 km Bagshot 32 mi 08 ch 51.66 km Camberley 35 mi 30 ch 56.93 km Frimley 37 mi 48 ch 60.51 km mileage change South Western Main Line to Weymouth & Waterloo Alton Line to Waterloo via SWML Ash Vale 32 mi 38 ch 52.26 km North Downs Line to Reading Basingstoke Canal Aldershot 35 mi 00 ch 56.33 km Alton Line mileage change Ash 49 mi 18 ch 79.22 km mileage change Wanborough 34 mi 29 ch 55.3 km mileage change Portsmouth Direct Line to Woking & SWML New Guildford Line to Surbiton & SWML Guildford 30 mi 27 ch 48.82 km North Downs Line to Reigate Portsmouth Direct Line to Portsmouth
Mileages from London Waterloo via various routes

Ash railway station serves the village of Ash in Surrey, England. The station is served by South West Trains, who manage the station, and by Great Western Railway. It is situated on the Ascot to Guildford line and the North Downs Line 6¼ miles (10 km) west of Guildford. There is a Level Crossing south-east of the station.

History

Opened by the Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway, then operated by the South Eastern 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.

The station had four platforms when it was built, which were later reduced to two after the second world war. The other two platforms were placed over where the station car park and the Network Rail offices now stand. The station is 49 miles 18 chains (79.2 km) from Charing Cross (measured via Redhill); platform 1 can accommodate an eight-coach train, but platform 2 only accommodates four coaches. To the east is the former Ash Junction, 48 miles 34 chains (77.9 km) from Charing Cross, where the former route via Tongham left the North Downs Line 35 miles 50 chains (57.3 km) from Waterloo (via Worplesdon and milepost  30 ¹⁄₄ at Guildford).^[1]

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Services

Regular train destinations are Reading, Redhill, Guildford, Gatwick Airport and Ascot via Aldershot. ^[2]

Typical off-peak services from Ash Monday - Friday are:

• 2 trains per hour to Guildford (South West Trains)
• 2 trains per hour to Ascot (South West Trains)
• 1 train per hour to Reading (Great Western Railway)
• 1 train per hour to Redhill (Great Western Railway)
• 5 trains per day to Gatwick Airport (Great Western Railway)

South West Trains services between Guildford & Ascot are run using a four carriage Class 450 or 458 and 2 cycles can be carried per train. After mid-spring 2014 train services will begin to be operated by 456 allowing the Class 450's and Class 458's to be used elsewhere on the South West Trains route. The Reading to Redhill & Gatwick Airport service is operated by Class 165 Diesel Multiple Units.

Notes

1. Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald, ed. Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 23. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
2. GB eNRT 2015-16 Edition, Tables 148 & 149

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

• Train times and station information for Ash railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 51°15′00″N 0°42′47″W / 51.250°N 0.713°W