Guildford Railway Station

2 days in a row. 2 incorrect station worker instructions, both times resulting in missing train and having to wait 40mins. Last week asked a question about weekend rail work disruptions & they said «who knows».

Sehr gut Anbindung direkt bis Waterloo um London zu erkunden. Auf die Zeiten achten. Bis 9:30 Uhr ist Peaktime. Da sind die Tickets teurer. Am besten direkt ein Kombiticket für die Underground kaufen. Parkplatz in Guildford direkt neben dem Bahnhof. Ca 9 Pfund

Guildford is one of the larger stations around the South East of England. It is well connected to Woking, London Waterloo, Portsmouth Harbour, etc. The staff are very helpful at the station too. It is a safe place and has 2 exits, one towards the town and the other towards the university. The Travel Office is open for a limited time period.

Guildford Railway Station is a large train station which caters for a variety of lines between Waterloo and Portsmouth, including as a change service to other large stations such as Reading.
The station itself is reasonably clean and bright, with a number of staircases and ramps to allow passengers to travel across the track from one platform to another, whether carrying heavy luggage, baby carriages or wheelchairs.
There is a Pumpkin coffee shop on site which sells the standard range of hot and cold drinks, newspapers and magazines and pastries, and also there is a small WHSmiths.
The platforms themselves are generally covered and such protect you from the worst onslaught of the weather, although you still remain quite exposed. There are several metal benches available along the platforms to sit on, but due to the busy nature of the station, these are often all occupied.

The County Town of Surrey is one of the major urban centres in the London commuter belt, and has an important railway station to match, used by over 6.5 million passengers a year, with a further half million changing trains here.
Opened in 1845 on the line to Portsmouth, additional lines were built to Reading and Reigate in 1849, Horsham in 1865 (subsequently closed) and the ‘New Guildford Line’ to London via Epsom or Cobham in 1885. The station was rebuilt in 1880, but has always had a reputation as being grimy and in need of refurbishment. New buildings were provided in the late 1980s, as well as new platform canopies and, whilst they are not particularly inspiring as architecture, they are at least clean and bright.
The Portsmouth line continues to provide the main service of fast and semi-​fast trains into London (4 per hour), supplemented by slower half-​hourly services via Epsom and Cobham, and regular services to Redhill, Gatwick Airport, Reading, Ascot. There are also less frequent long-​distance cross-​country trains to Birmingham and Manchester.
There are two entrances: the main (east) entrance onto the Station Approach is best for the town centre, museum and castle, whereas Guildford Park Road entrance (via the footbridge) is better for the Cathedral and University of Surrey.
Facilities include a travel centre, ticket office, car-​park, car rental (Hertz), cash-​point, taxi rank, bus interchange, cycle storage, café, W H Smiths, and disabled toilets. There is step-​free access between the platforms, and from the main entrance (but not from the Guildford Park Road entrance).