Ashtead railway station

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

Ashtead
Ashtead railway station
General information
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
2018/19	1.308 million
2019/20	1.273 million
2020/21	0.261 million
2021/22	0.697 million
2022/23	0.847 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

The former station building, seen in 2007

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

The station seen in June 2021

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

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

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

On Saturday evenings (after approximately 18:45) and on Sundays, there is no service south of Dorking to Horsham.

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

References

1. Lawrence, David (2018). British Rail Architecture, 1948-97 (First ed.). Manchester, UK: Crecy Publishing LTD. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-86093-685-5.
2. Powell, Goff (April 2014). "Ashtead Railway Station" (PDF). Leatherhead & District Local History Society. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
3. Table 152, 180 National Rail timetable, December 2021

Bibliography

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
• 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

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

51.318°N 0.308°W / 51.318; -0.308