Ashurst New Forest railway station

Coordinates: 50°53′24″N 1°31′37″W / 50.890°N 1.527°W / 50.890; -1.527
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Ashurst New Forest
Southern Railway
Key dates
1 June 1847Opened as "Lyndhurst Road"
24 September 1995Renamed "Ashurst New Forest"
Passengers
2018/19Increase 0.154 million
2019/20Decrease 0.134 million
2020/21Decrease 30,792
2021/22Increase 74,566
2022/23Increase 91,488
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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.

History

Opened as Lyndhurst Road on 1 June 1847 by 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

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

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, which were withdrawn at the start of February 2007.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

  1. ^
    Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 58. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
  2. ISBN 1-870119-48-7
    .
  3. ISBN 1-870119-53-3
    .
  4. ^ Table 158 National Rail timetable, May 2016
Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Totton  
South Western Railway
London-Weymouth
   Beaulieu Road

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