Ascot railway station (Berkshire)

Ascot South Western Railway
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	ACT
Classification	DfT category C2
Key dates
4 June 1856	Opened
1 February 1857	Renamed Ascot & Sunninghill
10 July 1921	Renamed Ascot
Passengers
2018/19	1.235 million
Interchange	0.278 million
2019/20	1.119 million
Interchange	0.268 million
2020/21	0.155 million
Interchange	71,831
2021/22	0.551 million
Interchange	0.176 million
2022/23	0.821 million
Interchange	0.225 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

v t e Ascot–Ash Vale Jn
Legend
Waterloo Ascot 28 mi 79 ch 46.65 km Bagshot 32 mi 08 ch 51.66 km Guildford Road Viaduct Bagshot Tunnel Camberley 35 mi 30 ch 56.93 km Frimley 37 mi 48 ch 60.51 km Waterloo Mytchett Lake Railway Bridge Alton line to Pirbright Jn Ash Vale Jn 40 mi 57 ch 65.52 km Ash Vale Alton line to Alton

Ascot railway station serves the town of

The station has three active platforms. The London-bound track is a single track with platform faces on either side, both of which are called Platform 1. Until some time prior to 2008, both faces could be used to board London-bound trains, but now only the doors on the ticket office side of the train open with the other side now being fenced off. Platform 2 serves the

History

The Staines, Wokingham and Woking Junction Railway opened the station when it reached Ascot on 4 June 1856. On 9 July the line was extended to

The L&SWR opened Ascot Race Course Platform or Ascot West in 1922 to serve Ascot Racecourse. BR closed it in 1965.^[1]

Ascot had four

When BR sectorised itself in the 1980s, the station was made part of Network SouthEast.

In 1982 a fire severely damaged the station buildings on the "up" (London-bound) side.^[5]

Services

Ascot is served by trains between

During

Royal Ascot

week, train services from London Waterloo to Reading through Ascot are significantly increased, with trains running every 15 mins in either direction.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Sunningdale		Waterloo to Reading Line		Martins Heron
Terminus		South Western Railway Ascot to Guildford Line		Bagshot

Notes

References

• Body, G (1984). PSL Field Guides – Railways of the Southern Region. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens Ltd. pp. 35–36.
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• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers.
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• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.
  OCLC 22311137
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ascot railway station.

• Train times and station information for Ascot railway station (Berkshire) from National Rail
• Ascot railway station (Berkshire) in the 1866 edition of
  Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain & Ireland
• Station on navigable Ordnance Survey map

51°24′22″N 0°40′34″W / 51.406°N 0.676°W / 51.406; -0.676