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The station was opened when the ''Staines, Wokingham and Woking Junction Railway'' reached here on 4 June 1856; on 9 July the line was extended to Wokingham . On 18 March Ascot became a junction when the line towards Ash Vale was opened. The station has four platform faces, with an island platform between each of the outside tracks. Of those faces the two southernmost are unused: all trains use the Up and Down main lines, the Down loop being reversible, which allows Up services to depart from the single track between Platform 1 and the island platform. Ash Vale trains use Platform 3 on the other side of the island. A fire at the station in 1983 severely damaged the buildings. In the days when race traffic for the nearby Ascot Racecourse warranted it, there was a separate racecourse station and four signal boxes. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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