Ashford railway station (Surrey)

Ashford (Surrey)
Ashford (Surrey)
	Ashford Station
General information
Location	Ashford, Spelthorne; England
Grid reference	TQ065719
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	AFS
Classification	DfT category C2
History
Opened	22 August 1848
Passengers
2018/19	1.076 million
2019/20	0.986 million
2020/21	0.237 million
2021/22	0.616 million
2022/23	0.725 million
Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Ashford railway station serves the town of Ashford, Surrey, in the borough of Spelthorne in South East England. It is 17 miles 40 chains (28.2 km) down the line from London Waterloo.

Although the station signage displays only Ashford, the station is referred to in timetables and is printed on railway tickets as Ashford (Surrey) in order to differentiate it from Ashford International railway station in Kent.^[1]^[2]^[3]

History[edit]

The station was opened in 1848 by the Windsor Staines and South Western Railway Company. Absorbed by the London and South Western 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.

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

At the east end of the main station building is the station house (known as White Lodge), built in 1857 to accommodate Prince Albert on his visit to open the nearby Welsh School (now St. James' School for Senior Boys), although it is unclear whether he actually stayed there.^[4] The station also previously had a goods yard to the north which is now an aggregates yard and builders' merchant.

In 2015 the station was refurbished, and a ramp was installed to improve disability access to the ticket office and waiting room.^[5]

Services[edit]

All services at Ashford are operated by South Western Railway.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[6]

4 tph to London Waterloo (2 of these are stopping services via Hounslow and 2 are semi-fast via Richmond)
2 tph to Weybridge
2 tph to Windsor & Eton Riverside

Additional services, including trains to and from Camberley and Aldershot call at the station during the peak hours.

On Sundays, the stopping services between Weybridge and London Waterloo are reduced to hourly and westbound trains run to and from Woking instead of Weybridge.