Ash Vale railway station

Ash Vale South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	AHV
Classification	DfT category D
History
Opened	2 May 1870
Passengers
2018/19	0.459 million
Interchange	0.115 million
2019/20	0.421 million
Interchange	81,604
2020/21	88,390
Interchange	15,343
2021/22	0.227 million
Interchange	44,113
2022/23	0.303 million
Interchange	68,635
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Ash Vale is a

Location

The station is on an

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Train movements in the Ash Vale station area and the junction beyond were controlled by Ash Vale Junction signal box, constructed in June 1879.^[4] The signal box, complete with its four residents and cover staff, operated 24 hours a day, 364 days a year. The signal box closed in 2014^[5] and was demolished two years later.^{[6]: 24–25}

Services

On weekdays, there are trains approximately every 30 minutes between

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Brookwood or Woking		Alton Line		Aldershot
Frimley		South Western Railway Ascot to Guildford line

In 1952 the booking clerk at Ash Vale was murdered following a hold-up by a fellow rail worker.[9]^[10]

On the evening of 29 August 1990, a Class 421 electric multiple unit working a Guildford to Ascot service derailed at Ash Vale Junction. All four carriages remained upright; 20 passengers were evacuated by military personnel and escorted to Ash Vale station.^[11][12]

Gallery

• 
  A train heads south from Ash Vale station towards Aldershot in April 2006.
• 
  A departing train is signalled onto the line to Ascot in August 2023.
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  A train from Ascot joins the line from Woking at Ash Vale Junction in August 2023.
• 
  A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Farnham railway station

References