Longcross railway station is next to

Longcross Longcross is a village in the Borough of Runnymede in Surrey, England, approximately southwest of central London. Its name is thought to come from a marker, placed where the parish boundaries of Chertsey, Chobham and Egham met. From the start ...

Garden Village (Upper Longcross) in

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, England. It straddles the former parishes of

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and Lyne and Longcross (a current civil parish) in part of the large wooded sandy heath known as

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, larger than the district of the same name. It is down the line from and is served as a minor stop by South Western Railway on the

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History

The station was opened by the Southern Railway. Originally named ''Longcross Halt'', it was not shown in regular timetables until 21 September 1942. On 5 May 1969 it was renamed ''Longcross'' by

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

. Since the May 2022 timetable change, trains stopping at this station have increased to a regular half-hourly frequency similar to other stations on the Waterloo–Reading line. This reflects the development of Longcross Garden Village nearby.

Location

The station provides access to Longcross Garden Village, and the adjacent Longcross film studios. The station is not by a road but has a short, broad path to residential roads: Burma Road and Churchill Drive. To the north is Wentworth Golf Course, lacking any rights of way (accessways) between it and the station.OS Explorer Map, sheet 160, 2015, The station is thus adjacent to parts of the

Wentworth Estate The Wentworth Estate is a private estate of large houses set in about woodland, in Runnymede, Surrey. It was commenced in the early 1920s. It lies within a gently undulating area of coniferous heathland and interlaces with the Wentworth Gol ...

and, beyond the M3 motorway,

Chobham Common Chobham Common is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Chobham in Surrey. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I and a national nature reserve. It is part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area and ...

Services

The off-peak Monday to Saturday service at the station is: * 2 trains per hour to

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via

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* 2 trains per hour to On Sundays the service reduces to hourly in each direction.

References

External links

* - Video covering a visit to the station. {{Transport in Surrey Railway stations in Surrey DfT Category C2 stations Former Southern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1942 Railway stations served by South Western Railway Railway stations in Great Britain without road access 1942 establishments in England