London Road (Guildford) railway station

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
2018/19	1.022 million
2019/20	0.946 million
2020/21	0.203 million
2021/22	0.584 million
2022/23	0.721 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of lines around London Road (Guildford) railway station

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 Epsom.
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, Lee Pomeroy, 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 Pomeroy 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

1. Wragg, David. SR Handbook 1923-1947.
2. "SWR withdraws '456s' following service cuts". Rail. No. 949. 26 January 2022. pp. 10–11.
3. Table 152 National Rail timetable, December 2021
4. "Surrey train stabbing: Suspect arrested along with a woman". BBC News. 5 January 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
5. "Darren Pencille: Train killer 'would panic during rail journeys'". BBC News. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.

External links

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