Ashurst railway station

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

Ashurst
General information
Location	Ashurst, Kent, Borough of Tunbridge Wells England
Grid reference	TQ507387
Managed by	Southern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	AHS
Classification	DfT category F1
History
Opened	1 October 1888
Passengers
2018/19	38,190
2019/20	45,624
2020/21	6,094
2021/22	18,842
2022/23	26,488
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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.

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 Rail.

Facilities

Ashurst station is unstaffed and tickets must be bought from the self-service ticket machine at the station.

The station has passenger help points and covered seating areas available on both platforms. The station also has a small car park and cycle rack at the station entrance.

The Uckfield bound platform is accessible without steps, however the London bound platform is only reachable by the stepped footbridge.

Services

All services at Ashurst are operated by Southern using Class 171 DMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

• 1 tph to London Bridge via Oxted
• 1 tph to Uckfield

Services increase to 2 tph in each direction during the peak hours.

On Sundays, the northbound service runs as far as Oxted only.

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

External links

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