Aldershot railway station

Aldershot railway station is on Station Road, near the town centre of Aldershot, Hampshire, England. It is on the Alton Line, part of the National Rail network, with train services and station facilities provided by South West Trains.

Aldershot railway station has the three-letter code AHT. This code is used, for example, to pinpoint Aldershot when using National Rail . The station's National Location Code (NLC) is 5623. This code can be seen on tickets issued by the ticket office. Tickets issued by the ticket vending machine show the location 3130.Work started on 8 December 2008 to install ticket gates to help combat fare evasion.

History

Opened 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.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Services

Train destinations are normally London Waterloo, Alton, Guildford and Ascot.

The typical off-peak service (Monday to Saturday) from the station is:

• 2tph (trains per hour) to London Waterloo
• 2tph to Alton
• 2tph to Guildford
• 2tph to Ascot (Berks)

Ticket machines

There are 2 new TicketXpress ticket vending machines which now reside outside the entrance to the booking hall, making them accessible when the station booking hall is closed. They are available at all times, except...
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