Ashurst (New Forest) railway station

Ashurst (New Forest)
Ashurst station platforms
Location
Place	Ashurst
Local authority	New Forest
Grid reference	SU333101
Operations
Station code	ANF
Managed by	South West Trains
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	49,102
2005/06	56,768
2006/07	71,275
2007/08	82,733
2008/09	88,712
2009/10	88,710
2010/11	101,108
History
Original company	Southampton and Dorchester Railway
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
1 June 1847	Opened as "Lyndhurst Road"
June 1997	Renamed "Ashurst (New Forest)"
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ashurst (New Forest) from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Ashurst (New Forest) railway station is in Ashurst, Hampshire, England, on the South Western Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth.

History

Opened by the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, then absorbed by the London and South Western Railway, it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

For much of its history the station was called Lyndhurst Road, renamed Ashurst (New Forest) in June 1997, and was the location of a Camping coach.

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 New Forest. It is served hourly by the London Waterloo to Poole stopping services operated by South West Trains, with some additional fast trains to London Waterloo in the peak. The majority of services are formed of Class 444 electric multiple units, with some Class 450 units. Services were previously operated by Class 442 Wessex Electrics, which were withdrawn at the start of February 2007.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Totton		South West Trains London-Poole stopping services		Beaulieu Road or Brockenhurst

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.