Ashurst (Kent) railway station

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

Ashurst
Location
Place	Ashurst, Kent
Local authority	Borough of Tunbridge Wells
Grid reference	TQ507387
Operations
Station code	AHS
Managed by	Southern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	6,572
2005/06	10,831
2006/07	14,732
2007/08	17,360
2008/09	20,282
2009/10	16,694
2010/11	22,326
2011/12	24,432
2012/13	24,976
2013/14	24,630
2014/15	23,524
History
Key dates	Opened 1 October 1888 (1 October 1888)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ashurst from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Ashurst railway station serves Ashurst in Kent, England (very close to the East Sussex border). Train services from the station are provided by Southern, and the station is on the Uckfield branch of the Oxted Line. Buses between Tunbridge Wells and East Grinstead run along the main road past the station. There are no toilet facilities.

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.

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

External links

• Train times and station information for Ashurst (Kent) railway station from National Rail