Longcross railway station is situated 1 mile from the village of Longcross in Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...

, England

England

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. It is served by South West Trains

South West Trains

South West Trains is a British train operating company providing, under franchise, passenger rail services, mostly out of Waterloo station, to the southwest of London in the suburbs and in the counties of Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Berkshire, and Wiltshire and on the Isle of Wight...

. The station is inaccessible by vehicles. It can be reached from the south along Burma Road, a road from the B386 which skirts the western side of the Longcross Qinetiq facility before narrowing to a track then a footpath, or else by crossing Wentworth Golf Course

Wentworth Club

Wentworth Club is a privately owned golf club and health resort in Virginia Water, Surrey on the south western fringes of London, not far from Windsor Castle. The club was founded in 1926.-History:...

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Filming

In Autumn 2006 a more regular service was provided at Longcross station, with many trains making unscheduled stops. This was due to filming at the QinetiQ site for a new BBC

BBC

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 drama, HolbyBlue

HolbyBlue

HolbyBlue was a British police drama series that aired on BBC One from 2007 to 2008. Produced by the BBC, Red Planet Pictures and Kudos for BBC One, it is a spin-off of the successful BBC One medical drama Holby City, itself a spin-off of the long-running series Casualty.The first series was...

, a spin-off of Holby City

Holby City

Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...

. Three further dramas also used Longcross for filming in 2006: a political drama made by World Productions

World Productions

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; Jekyll by Hartswood Films

Hartswood Films

Hartswood Films is a British television production company, founded and run by producer Beryl Vertue. The company is noted for its sitcom output, which includes Men Behaving Badly, Is It Legal? and Coupling...

; and the second series of Hyperdrive

Hyperdrive (TV series)

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, a BBC comedy series.

The TV show Echo Falls is currently in production at Longcross.

The BBC Ghost Story for Christmas "View from a Hill" (by M.R. James) used the station as a location for the opening and closing scenes.

Services

the station is served by only by peak hour trains a day on Mondays to Fridays.

• 11 tpd (trains per day to London Waterloo
• 9 tpd to

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