Ash railway station

30+1⁄4 at Guildford). ^[3]

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

Construction of a new road bridge to replace the A323 level crossing at the southeastern end of the station, began in September 2023. ^[4]

Services

Services at Ash are operated by South Western Railway and Great Western Railway using Class 165 and 166 DMUs and Class 450 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is two trains per hour in each direction between Guildford and Farnham via Aldershot, operated by South Western Railway, and one train per hour in each direction between Reading and Gatwick Airport via Guildford, operated by Great Western Railway. ^[5]

During the peak hours, the service between Reading and Gatwick Airport is increased to two trains per hour in each direction.

Ash
Ash railway station
General information
Location	Ash, Guildford England
Grid reference	SU899508
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	ASH
Classification	DfT category E
Key dates
20 August 1849	Opened as Ash
July 1855	Renamed Ash and Aldershot
September 1858	Renamed Aldershot (Ash)
June 1859	Renamed Ash and Aldershot
June 1863	Renamed Ash Junction
1 December 1926	Renamed Ash
Passengers
2019/20	0.246 million
Interchange	21,645

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Wanborough		South Western Railway Farnham to Guildford		Aldershot
Guildford		Great Western Railway North Downs Line		North Camp
Wanborough Limited Service

Notes

1. R A Williams, The London and South Western Railway: volume 2: Growth and Consolidation, David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973, ISBN 0 7153 5940 1, pages 72 and 73
2. H P White, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: volume II: Southern England, Phoenix House, London, 1961, pages 129 and 130
3. Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 23. ISBN   978-0-9549866-4-3.
4. "Construction of £45M Ash bridge starts this month". The Construction Index. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
5. Table 148, 149 National Rail timetable, December 2023

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 (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC   22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN   978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC   228266687.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

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

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