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In the Grouping of 1923 the L&SWR became part of the Southern Railway, which electrified both lines using a third rail system on 1 January 1939. Under nationalisation in 1948 Ascot station became part of the Southern Region of British Railways. The L&SWR opened Ascot Race Course Platform or Ascot West in 1922 to serve Ascot Racecourse. BR ...
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On 7 June 1864, two trains running from Ascot to London collided, resulting in the deaths of six people. The trains had been scheduled to leave Ascot at five minute intervals, but the first train was delayed at Egham due to a passenger being removed for card-sharping, causing a late departure at 7:28pm when it was struck by the following train.
The Ascot–Ash Vale line is an 11-mile-58-chain (18.9 km) railway line in Berkshire and Surrey, England. It runs from Ascot station, on the Waterloo–Reading line, to Ash Vale, on the Alton line. There are intermediate stations at Bagshot, Camberley and Frimley, all three of which are in the Borough of Surrey Heath.
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]
Ascot railway station, or Ascot train station, may refer to: Ascot railway station (Berkshire), a railway station in Ascot, Berkshire, England;
The line to it describes a curve around the town on an embankment, crossing the River Wey by a high bridge. Guildford station was also the northern terminus of the former Cranleigh Line which was opened 2 October 1865 by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway and closed almost one hundred years later on 12 June 1965. [ 3 ]
On Friday 16 September 1859 a train passed a signal at danger at Staines and ran into the back of another train resulting in 7 injures. [ 9 ] On Tuesday 7 June 1864 6 people were killed when a special train from Ascot passed a signal at danger and collided with the train in front at Egham.