Grid reference TQ658271 Managed by Southeastern 2011/12 0.146 million | Station code SOG DfT category E Number of platforms 2 Original company South Eastern Railway, UK | |
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Place Between Witherenden Hill and Stonegate in the parish of Ticehurst Address High Weald AONB, Peartree Hill, Ticehurst, Wadhurst TN5 7ER, UK Similar Etchingham railway station, Robertsbridge railway station, High Brooms railway st, West St Leonards railway st, Wadhurst railway station | ||
Stonegate railway station is on the Hastings Line in East Sussex in England. Train services are provided by Southeastern.
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Services
The typical off-peak service is one train per hour to London Charing Cross via Tunbridge Wells, and one train per hour to Hastings.
History
The South Eastern Railway route between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings was authorised in 1846 (9 & 10 Vic. cap. LXIV), and opened in stages: the section between Tunbridge Wells and Robertsbridge was opened on 1 September 1851. One of the stations opened the same day was originally named Witherenden (the name of a nearby hamlet), but was renamed in December the same year to Ticehurst Road. It became Stonegate (after a village about 1 mile away) on 16 June 1947.
On 13 April 2014, it emerged that Jonathan Burrows, a BlackRock fund manager travelling from the station, had dodged an estimated £42,550 over five years in season ticket fares to London by using an unvalidated Oyster card and avoiding ticket inspectors. It is believed to have been the highest fare dodge known in Britain.