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Information on Ashford Station




For a major junction location with five radiating routes. Ashford deals with its sizeable traffic load in a very unassuming manor. Compared with the 10 minutes required in steam days, Ashford regularly unites and seperates the Dover and Margate portions of the Charing Cross trains in unruffled 3 minutes. Its other Dover trains, plus those to Hastings and Ashford's own service to Charing Cross, are handled with similar lack of fuss at its modern functional four-platform station. The original mainline of the  South Eastern Railway reached Ashford on 1 December 1842, pushed on to Folkestone in the following year and achieved its Dover target in 1844. Just three years later the growing South Eastern opened a locomotive works east of the station and subsequently added a wagon works as well, using sites adjoining the 1846 route to Margate. The Ashford locomotives works closed in 1962 and the BREL depot 22 years later, but the traction and stock maintenance is carried on at Chart Leacon depot west of the station. Built on a former swamp at the time of the Kent Coast electrification, Chart Leacon repairs and overhauls a large volume of suburban rolling stock as well as doing locomotive an multiple unit work.
  Rebuilt and enlarged in the early 1900s, rebuilt again in the 1960s, and then rebuilt again in 1995 after Private funding for the station rebuild was agreed in December 1993, International services using the platforms the following year. A noticeable emphasis was put on Airport Terminal design, to enhance the "international" feel about it, with the island platforms serving Eurostar. The main station entrance is to the north of the platforms, and like the platform buildings, is glass clad and built with airport terminal design in mind.
 
Despite the transformation of the station area into an unrecognisable scene on two occasions, the original SER works of 1846 have, amazingly, remained virtually untouched and are now listed structures. The buildings are devoid of rail access, but one workshop is still in use for the restoration of preserved steam locomotives.

Ashford International now has its own recycling facility, falling in line with other popular locations such as Brighton Railway Station and Stansted Airport. The creditable new recycling facilities by Southeastern and Southern Railway companies will help to maintain a clean and responsible environment as Ashford International escalates in new rail customers and services.

Meanwhile Eurostar, aware of environmental requisites, are installing new trains, which also promise even higher speeds.

In September 2005 work commenced on the new Ashford Hitachi Depot and completed in 92 weeks to the cost of £52.9 million.

Ashford Station facilities include

A bar, cafe, bureau de change and convenience store all available in the departure lounge.
Ticket office is open daily, from one hour before the first departure until 22.30, e-ticket collection machines are also available.
Other facilities include a toddler's play area, toilets with baby changing facilities and cash machines (before check in only).


Ashford Station Services



The typical domestic off-peak service include:
  • 4 tph (trains per hour) to London Charing Cross, which run via Sevenoaks
  • 1 tph to London Cannon Street via Maidstone East
  • 1 tph to London Victoria via Maidstone East
  • 2 tph to Dover Priory of which one continues onto Ramsgate
  • 3 tph to Canterbury of which two continue onto Ramsgate and one continues onto Margate
  • 1 tph to Brighton via the Marshlink Line
from 29 June 2009 this station has been served by a peak hour preview service of high speed trains traveling over High Speed 1 (HS1 ) Officially known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), is 108 Kilometer (67 mile) high speed railway running from London through Kent to the British end of the Channel Tunnel, reaching London St Pancras in 37 minutes, compared with the off-peak service from London Charing Cross which at the beginning of 2009 took 60 minutes. From 13 December a full service from London to Dover and Ramsgate will operate.

From December the planned off-peak service is
  • 2 tph to London St Pancras
  • 2 tph to London Charing Cross via Sevenoaks
  • 2 tph to London Victoria via Maidstone East
  • 3 tph to Dover Priory of which one continues to Ramsgate
  • 3 tph to Canterbury west of which to will continue to ramsgate and then one will continue to Margate
  • 1 tph to Brighton via the Marshlink Line
Daily there are three Eurostar services to Paris, one to Brussels and one to Marne-la-Vallee for Disneyland Paris, calling at Lille, with the same number arriving from the mainland. It is not permitted to use Eurostar services for domestic journeys.

tph = trains per hour

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