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.
All services at Stonegate are operated by Southeastern using EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
A single peak hours train each way additionally serves London Cannon Street.
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 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 paid ã42,550 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.