Stonegate railway station

Stonegate railway station (not to be confused with Stone Crossing) is on the Hastings line in the south of England. It is located between Witherenden Hill and Stonegate in the parish of Ticehurst, East Sussex. It is located 43 miles 66 chains (70.5 km) down the line from London Charing Cross . The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern.

Stonegate
The station in 2007
General information
Location	Between Witherenden Hill and Stonegate in the parish of Ticehurst, Rother England
Coordinates	51.020°N 0.364°E / 51.020; 0.364
Grid reference	TQ658271
Managed by	Southeastern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SOG
Classification	DfT category E
History
Original company	South Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping	South Eastern and Chatham Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
1 September 1851	Opened as Witherenden
December 1851	Renamed Ticehurst Road
16 June 1947	Renamed Stonegate
Passengers
2019/20	0.176 million
2020/21	29,224
2021/22	93,064
2022/23	0.118 million
2023/24	0.118 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Services

All services at Stonegate are operated by Southeastern using Class 375 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[1]

• 1 tph to London Charing Cross
• 1 tph to Hastings

Additional services, including trains to and from and London Cannon Street and Ore call at the station in the peak hours.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Wadhurst		Southeastern Hastings Line		Etchingham

History

The South Eastern Railway route between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings was authorised in 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. lxiv), and opened in stages: the section between Tunbridge Wells and Robertsbridge was opened on 1 September 1851.^[2] The station opened the same day named Witherenden^[3] (the name of a nearby hamlet), but was renamed in December the same year to Ticehurst Road.^[4] It became Stonegate (after a village about 1 mile away) on 16 June 1947.^[5]

On 13 April 2014, it emerged that a BlackRock fund manager travelling from the station paid £42,550 in an out of court settlement for over five years of dodging season ticket fares to London by using an unvalidated Oyster card and avoiding ticket inspectors. It is believed to have been the highest fare dodge known in Britain.^[6]