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Ashford (Surrey)
Ashford Station
General information
Location	Ashford, Spelthorne England
Grid reference	TQ065719
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	AFS
Classification	DfT category C2
History
Opened	22 August 1848
Passengers
2019/20	0.986 million
2020/21	0.237 million
2021/22	0.616 million
2022/23	0.725 million
2023/24	0.762 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Ashford railway station serves the town of Ashford, Surrey, in the borough of Spelthorne in South East England. It is 17 miles 40 chains (28.2 km) down the line from London Waterloo.

Although the station signage displays only Ashford, the station is referred to in timetables and is printed on railway tickets as Ashford (Surrey) in order to differentiate it from Ashford International railway station in Kent.

History

The station was opened in 1848 by the Windsor Staines and South Western Railway Company. 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.

When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Rail.

At the east end of the main station building is the station house (known as White Lodge), built in 1857 to accommodate Prince Albert on his visit to open the nearby Welsh School (now St. James' School for Senior Boys), although it is unclear whether he actually stayed there. The station also previously had a goods yard to the north which is now an aggregates yard and builders' merchant.

In 2015 the station was refurbished, and a ramp was installed to improve disability access to the ticket office and waiting room.

Services

All services at Ashford are operated by South Western Railway.

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

• 4 tph to London Waterloo (2 of these are stopping services via Hounslow and 2 are semi-fast via Richmond)
• 2 tph to Weybridge
• 2 tph to Windsor & Eton Riverside

Additional services, including trains to and from Camberley and Aldershot call at the station during the peak hours.

On Sundays, the stopping services between Weybridge and London Waterloo are reduced to hourly and westbound trains run to and from Woking instead of Weybridge.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Feltham		South Western Railway Waterloo to Reading Line		Staines

Gallery

• Station building (centre) and White Lodge (left)
• Looking towards London
• Looking towards Staines
• Platform signage

References

1. National Rail - Station Facilities: Ashford (Surrey) Archived 4 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Trains to Ashford (Surrey) station". South Western Railway. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
3. National Rail - Live departures: Ashford (Surrey)
4. Barker, D. M.; Barker, J. L. (2006). Aspects of Ashford. Addlestone, Surrey: Borough Books. ISBN 978-0-9537547-1-7.
5. Strudwick, Matt (17 February 2015). "Ashford railway station to get £60,000 revamp". getsurrey.co.uk. Surrey Live. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
6. Table 149 National Rail timetable, December 2023

• Station on navigable 1946 O. S. map

External links

• Train times and station information for Ashford railway station (Surrey) from National Rail

v t e Borough of Spelthorne
Towns, villages and localities	Ashford Ashford Common Charlton Laleham Littleton Lower Halliford Lower Sunbury Shepperton Staines-upon-Thames Stanwell Stanwell Moor Sunbury-on-Thames Sunbury Common Upper Halliford
Key parks	Ashford Park Rec. Ground Beechwood Rec. Ground Bishop Duppas Park Knowle Green Laleham Park Spelthorne Sports Ground Long Lane Rec. Ground Shortwood Common Staines Moor (Staines) Lammas Staines Park Sunbury Park Town Lane Rec. Ground Walled Garden, Sunbury
Large listed buildings	Churches All Saints', Laleham St Hilda's, Ashford St Mary's, Staines St Matthew's, Ashford St Mary's, Stanwell St Mary Magdalene's, Littleton St Nicholas', Shepperton Other Halliford School Laleham Abbey Littleton Manor The Old Manor House, Shepperton Shepperton Manor St Paul's College St James Senior Boys School Sunbury Court
Education	The Bishop Wand Church of England School Halliford School Matthew Arnold School St James Senior Boys School St. Paul's College, Sunbury-on-Thames Spelthorne College Sunbury Manor School Thamesmead School
Railway stations	Ashford Kempton Park Shepperton Staines Sunbury Upper Halliford
Buildings and structures	Kempton Park Racecourse Kempton Park Reservoirs Kempton Park Steam Engines King George VI Reservoir Queen Mary Reservoir Shepperton Studios Staines Reservoirs Wraysbury Reservoir Thames Water Ring Main M3 motorway and Thames Crossing Staines Bridge Chertsey Bridge Walton Bridge
Sport	Football Ashford Town (Middlesex) F.C. Spelthorne Sports F.C. Staines & Lammas (Middlesex) F.C. Staines Town F.C. Rugby London Irish RFC London Irish Amateur Rugby Football Club Staines Rugby Football Club Other Staines Boat Club Sunbury Cricket Club West Surrey Racing
Destroyed landmarks	Ashford Manor Astleham Church Stanwell Place Kempton Manor Sunbury Manor

51°26′13″N 0°28′05″W / 51.437°N 0.468°W / 51.437; -0.468

• Railway stations in Surrey
• DfT Category C2 stations
• Former London and South Western Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
• Railway stations served by South Western Railway
• Ashford, Surrey