Ashtead railway station

Ashtead
Ashtead railway station
Location	Ashtead, District of Mole Valley England
Grid reference	TQ180589
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	AHD
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	1 February 1859
Passengers
2016/17	1.317 million
2017/18	1.265 million
2018/19	1.308 million
2019/20	1.273 million
2020/21	0.261 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Ashtead railway station is in Ashtead, Surrey, England. It is 16 miles 19 chains (26.1 km) down the line from London Waterloo.

History[]

Pre-2013 station building

Current station building

Designed by David Field in 1858 and opened by the Epsom and Leatherhead Railway, part of the London and South Western Railway, it became a joint station between that railway and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and was absorbed into the Southern Railway by the grouping of 1923. The station passed 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.

Before its renovation, the station was designed by Nigel Wikeley in the typical 'CLASP' manner, with a long and low design constructed from prefabricated materials.^[1] The main ticket office building was rebuilt in 2013.^[2]

Services[]

Services at Ashtead are operated by Southern and South Western Railway using Class 377, 455 and 456 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[3]

• 2 tph to London Victoria via Sutton
• 4 tph to London Waterloo via Wimbledon
• 4 tph to Dorking of which 1 continues to Horsham
• 2 tph to Guildford

On Saturday evenings (after approx 18:45) and on Sundays, there is no service to Horsham. On Sundays, the service to London Waterloo is reduced to 2 tph, the service to Dorking is reduced to 3 tph and the service to Guildford is reduced to 1 tph.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Epsom		Southern Sutton & Mole Valley Lines		Leatherhead
		South Western Railway Mole Valley Line

References[]

Bibliography[]

• 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links[]

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

Coordinates: 51°19′05″N 0°18′29″W / 51.318°N 0.308°W / 51.318; -0.308