Stonegate railway station

Stonegate railway station is on the Hastings line in the south of England. It is located between Witherenden Hill and Stonegate in the parish of Ticehurst, East Sussex. It is located down the line from London Charing Cross. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern.

Services

All services at Stonegate are operated by Southeastern using EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

1 tph to London Charing Cross
1 tph to

A single peak hours train each way additionally serves London Cannon Street.

History

The South Eastern Railway route between and was authorised in 1846, and opened in stages: the section between Tunbridge Wells and was opened on 1 September 1851. The station opened the same day named Witherenden, but was renamed in December the same year to Ticehurst Road. It became Stonegate on 16 June 1947.
On 13 April 2014, it emerged that a BlackRock fund manager travelling from the station paid £42,550 in an out of court settlement for over five years of dodging season ticket fares to London by using an unvalidated Oyster card and avoiding ticket inspectors. It is believed to have been the highest fare dodge known in Britain.