Hever railway station service is one train per hour to London Bridge via Oxted and one train per hour to Uckfield. Hever railway station Hever railway station is on the branch of the Oxted line in southern England and serves Hever in Kent. It is from . The station is managed by Southern. Hever Castle is about a walk from the station. The station was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway on 1 October 1888. It passed onto the Southern Railway in 1923 and to British Railways in 1948. The signal box was built into the station building and remained
Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever (1 June 1918 – 28 June 1984), was an English soldier, publisher, peer, and member of the Astor family. Astor was the eldest son of John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever (1886–1971), and Lady Violet Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1889–1965). He had two younger brothers, Hugh (1920–1999) and John (1923–1987). His mother had two children, Mary (1910–2003) and George (1912–1997), from her previous marriage to Lord Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice (1874–1914). He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford, before joining the Life Guards, where he reached