Trains to Guildford - Station Details and further Information on the Guildford Area
Guildford train station serves the town of Guildford in Surrey, England. It is located 30 miles from London Waterloo. It is situated on the Portsmouth Direct Line, and is an interchange station for three other railway lines: the North Downs Line northwards towards Reading, and with connection to Aldershot; the same line eastwards to Redhill; the New Guildford Line, the alternative route to Waterloo, via Cobham or Epsom. It is one of two stations in Guildford, the other being London Road (Guildford), on the New Guildford Line. Services are operated by South West Trains, First Great Western, Southern and CrossCountry.
The main station buildings are on the Down side. At the end of the Down side platform is a bay for the New Guildford Line. There are now three islands with seven platform faces plus the bay linked by both a long footbridge and a subway. Platforms 6 and 7 are opposite sides of the same line: these were used for unloading mail and parcels until the mid 1990s. The station was completely rebuilt (except for the platforms) in the late 1980s.
Platform 1 – Stopping services to London Waterloo via Epsom and peak time trains to London Bridge via Forest Hill, and London Victoria on the Sutton & Mole Valley Lines
Platform 2 – Stopping services to London Waterloo via Cobham
Platform 3 – Stopping services to London Waterloo via Woking [Sunday service only]
Platform 4 – Fast and stopping services towards Portsmouth; semi-fast services to Gatwick Airport
Platform 5 – Fast services to London Waterloo
Platform 6 – Stopping services to Redhill
Platform 8 – Services to Reading, Aldershot and Ascot
Platforms 6 and 7 are on opposite sides of the same single line. Automatic train doors only open on the platform 6 side. Platform 6 is signalled for bi-directional working – trains may approach from either direction.
Guildford
Guildford is the county town of Surrey, England, as well as the seat for the borough of Guildford and the administrative headquarters of the South East England region. It is situated some 27 miles southwest of London on the A3 trunk road linking the capital to Portsmouth.
The town has Saxon roots and likely owes its location to the existence of a gap in the North Downs where the River Wey is forded by the Harrow Way. The town grew enough in importance by 978 to be the Royal Mint. With the building of the Wey Navigation and Basingstoke Canal Guildford was in the centre of a network of waterways that aided its prosperity. |