Ashurst railway station

This article is about the station in Kent. For the station in Hampshire, see Ashurst New Forest railway station.

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General information
Location	Borough of Tunbridge Wells
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	AHS
History
Opened	1 October 1888

Ashurst railway station is on the Uckfield branch of the Oxted line in southern England and serves Ashurst in Kent (very close to the East Sussex border). It is 32 miles 8 chains (32.10 miles, 51.66 km) from London Bridge. The station is managed by Southern.

Buses between Tunbridge Wells and East Grinstead run along the main road past the station. There are no toilet facilities and the station is unmanned. There is a PERTIS machine on platform 2.

History

Opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast 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 was destaffed around 1970 following which all the station buildings were demolished in 1983.

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

Services

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour to London Bridge via Oxted, and one train per hour to Uckfield. On Sundays the northbound service runs to Oxted only.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Cowden		Southern Oxted Line Uckfield branch		Eridge

References

• 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 Ashurst railway station from National Rail