London Road (Guildford) railway station is in the east of the town centre of Guildford in Surrey, England, close to the suburbs of Merrow and Burpham. It is down the line from .
It is on the New Guildford Line between Waterloo and Guildford via Cobham or Epsom. The station is managed by South Western Railway, which also provides all train services.
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.
Platform layout
Platform 1 - Up trains to London Waterloo via Cobham and .Platform 2 - Down trains to Guildford
(There is a footbridge, without a lift, connecting the two platforms together. There are two entrances, one off London Road and one off York Road which is step-free)
Facilities
London Road has two waiting rooms (one on each platform), a ticket office on the down side, open Monday to Saturday mornings. Other facilities include a toilet, a few smart card readers, and two ticket machines. There is also a car park with bicycle storage.
Services All services at London Road are operated by South Western Railway using a mix of Class 450, and Class 701 EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: 3 tph to (2 of these run via Cobham and 1 runs via ) 3 tph to
Additional services run via Cobham in the morning peak hours increasing the number of services to 3 tph via Cobham.
Additional services run via Epsom in peak hours increasing the number of services to 2 tph via Epsom.
On Sundays and bank-holidays, there is a reduced service from the station.
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 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, Darren Pencille, had boarded the train at London Road. Pencille, who had exited the train at Clandon, was arrested the following day. He was subsequently found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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