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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 28 miles 47 chains (46.0 km) down the line from London Waterloo.

London Road (Guildford)
General information
Location	Guildford, Guildford England
Coordinates	51°14′27″N 0°33′55″W
Grid reference	TQ002500
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	LRD
Classification	DfT category D
History
Opened	1885
Passengers
2016/17	0.569 million
2017/18	0.541 million
2018/19	1.022 million
2019/20	0.946 million
2020/21	0.203 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station is managed by South Western Railway, who provide the majority of train services. Southern also provide some peak period 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 formally 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 SE England.[1]

Platform layout

Platform 1 - Up trains to London Waterloo via Cobham and Epsom, and peak hour trains to London Bridge and London Victoria
Platform 2 - Down trains to Guildford

Services

All services at London Road are operated by South Western Railway using Class 455 EMUs.[2]

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[3]

• 3 tph to London Waterloo (2 of these run via Cobham and 1 runs via Epsom)
• 3 tph to Guildford

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Clandon		South Western Railway New Guildford Line		Guildford

Accidents and incidents

• On 4 January 2019, a 51-year-old male passenger was fatally stabbed on board a South Western Railway service from Guildford to London Waterloo, as it was travelling between London Road and Clandon stations. The train, formed of a pair of Class 455 electric multiple units, was stopped at the next station along the line, Horsley, to allow emergency services to deal with the incident. Both the victim and the suspect had boarded the train at London Road. The suspect in the stabbing exited the train at Clandon and was arrested the following day.[4] The suspect, Darren Pencille, was subsequently found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.[5]

References

External links

• Train times and station information for London Road (Guildford) railway station from National Rail

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