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Ascot railway station serves the town of Ascot in Berkshire, England. It is 28 miles 79 chains (46.7 km) down the line from London Waterloo. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South Western Railway. It is at the junction of the Waterloo to Reading line with the Ascot to Guildford line. The station has three active platforms.
The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South Western Railway. It is situated on the Ascot to Guildford line, 37 miles 48 chains (60.5 km) from London Waterloo . History
The station, and all trains calling there, are operated by South Western Railway. It is situated on the Ascot to Guildford line, 32 miles 8 chains (51.7 km) from London Waterloo . History
The Ascot to Guildford Line, which is only served by through trains at peak times; these services run between London and Aldershot. A total of 12 trains per hour run between London Waterloo and Putney in the off-peak; this number increases in peak hours. [42]
It is on the Ascot–Ash Vale line, 35 miles 30 chains (56.9 km) from London Waterloo. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South Western Railway . Opened in 1878 by the London and South Western Railway (when it was known as Camberley & York Town ), the station gained a second platform fifteen years later when the line ...
Train destinations are normally London Waterloo, Alton, Guildford, Farnham and Ascot. Trains are usually routed to London Waterloo via Woking with three services in the morning peak scheduled to go the longer, slower route via Ascot (included as part of the normal Aldershot to Ascot service) and two returning via this route in the evening. [2]
[2] [b] The off-peak service pattern is two trains per hour from Aldershot to Ascot, calling at all stations on the line. In the morning peak, two trains continue beyond Ascot to London Waterloo with two similar workings in the opposite direction in the evening peak period. [6] Typical journey times between Ash Vale and Ascot are around 26 minutes.
Initial services on the line were 6 trains a day between Waterloo and Reading (2 on Sundays), building up to 14 trains a day (7 on Sunday) by 1928. The line was operated by the L&SWR from the outset, who leased it from the owning company in 1858 for 50% of the gross profits, before purchasing it outright in 1878.