Guildford is one of the key destinations and interchanges in Southern England on the National Rail Network. The station has 8 platforms and 6 individual pieces of track going through it with another piece and buffers for terminating trains. is at one of three main railway junctions on the Portsmouth Direct Line and serves the town of Guildford in Surrey, England. It provides an interchange station for two other railway lines: the North Downs Line northwards towards Reading, which has a connection to Aldershot; the same line eastwards to Redhill and Gatwick Airport; and the New Guildford Line, the alternative route to Waterloo, via Cobham or Epsom. Guildford station is the larger, more frequently and more diversely served of the two stations in Guildford town centre, the other being London Road on the New Guildford Line (not included). | Guildford is one of the key destinations and interchanges in Southern England on the National Rail Network. The station has 8 platforms and 6 individual pieces of track going through it with another piece and buffers for terminating trains. is at one of three main railway junctions on the Portsmouth Direct Line and serves the town of Guildford in Surrey, England. It provides an interchange station for two other railway lines: the North Downs Line northwards towards Reading, which has a connection to Aldershot; the same line eastwards to Redhill and Gatwick Airport; and the New Guildford Line, the alternative route to Waterloo, via Cobham or Epsom. Guildford station is the larger, more frequently and more diversely served of the two stations in Guildford town centre, the other being London Road on the New Guildford Line (not included). |