London Road (Guildford) railway station explained

London Road (Guildford)
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Guildford, Guildford
Country:England
Coordinates:51.2408°N -0.5653°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:South Western Railway
Platforms:2
Code:LRD
Classification:DfT category D
Opened:1885
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

London Road (Guildford) railway station is situated in the east of Guildford in Surrey, England, lying close to the suburbs of Merrow and Burpham. It is 28chain47chain down the line from .

The station is managed by South Western Railway, who also provide all train services.

It is situated on the New Guildford Line between Waterloo and Guildford via Cobham, although some trains operate via Epsom rather than Cobham.

The parenthesised Guildford is to avoid confusing the station with the similarly named London Road (Brighton). The name was previously changed to "London Road, Guildford" from "London Road" in 1923 when operation of the line was taken over from the London and South Western Railway by the Southern Railway, which then ran all the railways in South East England.[1]

Platform layout

Platform 1 - Up trains to London Waterloo via Cobham and .
Platform 2 - Down trains to Guildford

Services

All services at London Road are operated by South Western Railway using EMUs.[2]

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

Additional services run via Epsom during the peak hours, increasing the service to 4 tph in each direction.

Accidents and incidents

Notes and References

  1. Book: Wragg . David . SR Handbook 1923-1947.
  2. SWR withdraws '456s' following service cuts . . 949 . 26 January 2022 . 10–11.
  3. News: Surrey train stabbing: Suspect arrested along with a woman . BBC News . 5 January 2019 . 27 January 2019.
  4. News: Darren Pencille: Train killer 'would panic during rail journeys' . BBC News . 12 July 2019 . 13 July 2019.