Ashford International Railway Station

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Ashford International
Reception building
Reception building
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 3
IBNR 7098107
Price range B.
opening 02/28/1996
location
City / municipality Ashford
county Kent
Part of the country England
Country United Kingdom
Coordinates 51 ° 8 '37 "  N , 0 ° 52' 28"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '37 "  N , 0 ° 52' 28"  E
Railway lines
List of train stations in the United Kingdom
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The Ashford International station is the station of the city of Ashford in the English County (County) Kent in the southeast of the island of Great Britain .

The station belongs to Network Rail . The domestic trains are driven by the respective owner of the franchise for the network southeast.

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Station building

The station is a major rail hub with links to the High Speed ​​One high-speed line from the Eurotunnel to London and rail lines on the traditional British rail network in five directions.

Via the South Eastern Main Line towards Folkestone and Dover or via Pluckley to London Charing Cross ; on the Maidstone East Line via Maidstone north-west to Greater London; on the Canterbury West Line to Canterbury and Ramsgate ; and on the Marshlink Line towards Hastings . High Speed ​​One bypasses the train station on the east side.

After the commissioning of the second section of the High Speed ​​One high-speed line to London St. Pancras station , only four Eurostar trains to the continent stop in Ashford every day , two of them to Paris-Nord station and one to Marne-la-Vallée - Chessy station in In the immediate vicinity of the Disneyland Resort Paris theme park east of Paris and a train to Brussels .

Since 2009 the station has been served by regional trains of the Southeastern railway company with a speed of 225 km / h , which connect London St. Pancras with various destinations in Kent . Ashford is home to the maintenance center for these Hitachi-built Class 395 trains .

Construction

The station has six tracks on three platforms. All six tracks are equipped with a conductor rail that supplies 750 volts DC voltage , tracks three to six also have an overhead line and 25 kV AC voltage at 50 Hertz.

Tracks 3 and 4 are used for international traffic, the others for domestic connections. The clearance profile of the international tracks corresponds to the UIC profile GB +, so that trains designed for the continental European rail network could also stop there.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/rail/zügeger/stations/betterrailstations/pdf/partd.pdf ( Memento from June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

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