Ashurst New Forest railway station
Ashurst New Forest railway station is in Ashurst, Hampshire, England, on the South West Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth. It is 85 miles 43 chains (137.7 km) down the line from Waterloo.
Ashurst New Forest  | |
|---|---|
 Ashurst New Forest station platforms | |
| General information | |
| Location | Ashurst, District of New Forest England |
| Grid reference | SU333101 |
| Managed by | South Western Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | ANF |
| Classification | DfT category F2 |
| History | |
| Original company | Southampton and Dorchester Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London and South Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 1 June 1847 | Opened as "Lyndhurst Road" |
| 24 September 1995 | Renamed "Ashurst New Forest" |
| Passengers | |
| 2017/18 |  0.145 million |
| 2018/19 | 0.154 million |
| 2019/20 |  0.134 million |
| 2020/21 | 30,792 |
| 2021/22 | 74,566 |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
History
Opened as Lyndhurst Road on 1 June 1847 by the Southampton and Dorchester Railway,[1] then absorbed by the London and South Western Railway, it became part of the Southern Railway during the grouping of 1923.
The station was host to a Southern Railway camping coach from 1936 to 1939.[2]
The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. A camping coach was positioned here by the Southern Region from 1954 to 1960, the coach was replaced in 1961 by a Pullman camping coach until 1965 which was joined by another Pullman for 1966 and 1967.[3]
The station was renamed Ashurst New Forest on 24 September 1995.[1] 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 Western Railway, with some additional fast trains to London Waterloo and to Weymouth at weekday peak periods.[4] The services are formed of Class 444 electric multiple units, and Class 450 units. Services were previously operated by Class 442 Wessex Electrics, which were withdrawn at the start of February 2007. There is a self service ticket machine on platform 1. The station is unstaffed.
Notes
- Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 58. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
- McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 33. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
- McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. pp. 58 & 59. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
- Table 158 National Rail timetable, May 2016
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totton | South Western Railway London-Weymouth |
Beaulieu Road | ||
Further reading
- 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 (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.