Place Ashurst Station code ANF DfT category F2 Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference SU333101 Managed by South West Trains 2011/12 0.104 million | |
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Address Ashurst, Southampton SO40 7AD, United Kingdom Original company Southampton and Dorchester Railway Similar Totton railway station, New Milton railway station, Redbridge railway station, Beaulieu Road railway st, Hinton Admiral railway st | ||
Ashurst (New Forest) railway station is in Ashurst, Hampshire, England, on the South Western Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth.
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History
Opened by the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, then 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.
For much of its history the station was called Lyndhurst Road, renamed Ashurst (New Forest) on 24 September 1995, and was the location of a Camping coach.
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways.
Services
The station is some 200 to 300 yards from the village of Ashurst, and is used by visitors to the New Forest. It is served hourly by the London Waterloo to Poole stopping services operated by South West Trains, with some additional fast trains to London Waterloo and to Weymouth at weekday peak periods. The majority of services are formed of Class 444 electric multiple units, with some Class 450 units. Services were previously operated by Class 442 Wessex Electrics, which were withdrawn at the start of February 2007.