Ashford railway station (Surrey)

Ashford (Surrey)
Ashford Station
Location	Ashford, Spelthorne England
Grid reference	TQ065719
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	AFS
Classification	DfT category C2
History
Opened	22 August 1848
Passengers
2016/17	1.057 million
2017/18	1.033 million
2018/19	1.076 million
2019/20	0.986 million
2020/21	0.237 million
Notes
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 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 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

Gallery[]

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  Looking towards London

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  Looking towards Staines

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  Platform signage

References[]

• Station on navigable 1946 O. S. map

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ashford (Surrey) railway station.

• Train times and station information for Ashford railway station (Surrey) from National Rail

Coordinates: 51°26′13″N 0°28′05″W / 51.437°N 0.468°W / 51.437; -0.468