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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.
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.
Single two-car units were often used between Ascot and Guildford/Reading, requiring only a four-coach train from Waterloo. A peculiar rush-hour working was the 5.37 pm Waterloo - Woking service, which ran via Richmond, Ascot, Camberley and around the Sturt Lane spur to Brookwood and Woking. [21]
Guildford Road Viaduct, Bagshot [1] The Ascot–Ash Vale line is a railway line in Berkshire and Surrey, England.It runs for 11 mi 58 ch (18.9 km) from Ascot station, on the Waterloo–Reading line, to Ash Vale Junction, on the Alton line and immediately to the east of Ash Vale station. [2]
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
It is 31 miles 9 chains (50.1 km) down the line from London Waterloo, between Ascot and Bracknell on the Waterloo to Reading line. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South Western Railway.
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 ...
[40] [41] Most trains ran non-stop between Waterloo and Staines, [41] and on the outward journey they divided at Ascot (with one portion continuing to Guildford via Aldershot), whilst on the London-bound trip, the two portions would be combined again at Ascot. [40] The total journey time from Waterloo to Reading was reduced from 90 minutes to ...