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

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, East Sussex. It is located down the line from London Charing Cross . The station and all trains serving it are operated by

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Services

All services at Stonegate are operated by

using

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. 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

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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

Road. It became Stonegate (after a village about 1 mile away) on 16 June 1947. On 13 April 2014, it emerged that a

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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

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and avoiding ticket inspectors. It is believed to have been the highest fare dodge known in Britain.

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