Place Ashurst, Kent Station code AHS DfT category F1 Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference TQ507387 Managed by Southern 2011/12 24,432 | |
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Address Tunbridge Wells TN3 9TF, United Kingdom Similar Cowden railway station, Hever railway station, Edenbridge Town railway st, Yalding railway station, Hildenborough railway station | ||
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.
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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.