Stonegate railway station (not to be confused with Stone Crossing) 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 via 1 tph to
During the peak hours, the station is served by additional services between London Charing Cross and Hastings, increasing the service to 2 tph in each direction. There are also peak hour services to London Cannon Street and .
History
The South Eastern Railway route between and was authorised in 1846 (9 & 10 Vic. cap. LXIV), and opened in stages: the section between Tunbridge Wells and was opened on 1 September 1851. The station opened the same day named Witherenden (the name of a nearby hamlet), but was renamed in December the same year to Ticehurst Road. It became Stonegate (after a village about 1 mile away) on 16 June 1947.
On 13 April 2014, it emerged that a BlackRock fund manager travelling from the station had dodged an estimated £42,550 over five years in 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.