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

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, East Sussex. It is located down the line from

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. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern.

Services

All services at Stonegate are operated by Southeastern using

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to

* 1 tph to Additional services, including trains to and from and London Cannon Street and call at the station in the peak hours.

History

The South Eastern Railway route between and was authorised in 1846 ( 9 & 10 Vict. c. 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 paid £42,550 in an out of court settlement for over five years of dodging 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.

References

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