Getting to and around Surrey
Getting to and around Surrey could not be easier. London’s Heathrow and Gatwick Airports are on our borders and within 30 minutes of most parts of Surrey via a variety of modes of transport. Surrey can also be reached in approximately one hour from two of the UK’s major ferry ports, Portsmouth to the south west and Dover to the south east.
Our extensive road network includes much of the M25 (London Orbital), M3 (Southampton to London) and M23 (Brighton to London) motorways as well as many other major roads including the A3 (Portsmouth to London) and A30 (Cornwall to London). All of the county’s major towns are easily accessed from the motorways and major roads and are connected to each other by a network of smaller ‘A’ roads, many of these are dual carriageways capable of handling significant traffic.
For more information on getting around in Surrey, including airport travel information, please click here for Surrey County Council’s transport pages. You can also view the council’s interactive map by clicking here.
Public Transport
Public Transport provision in Surrey is excellent. The extensive rail network is one of the busiest in the UK and connects the county’s major towns, and many of the rural areas, to one another and the rest of the UK. Nearly all of our stations are within one hour of central London and around two and a half hours from the Olympic and Paralympic Sailing venue at Weymouth.
Surrey’s bus network carries over 29 million passengers a year and connects all of the major towns as well as the many rural areas which make up Surrey. Buses also run from Surrey into the neighbouring counties of Kent, Hampshire, East and West Sussex and of course London.
For more information on train and bus travel in Surrey please follow the links below
- Surrey County Council bus and train information
- National Rail Enquiries
- South West Trains
- First Great Western
- Southern Trains
Transport during the Games
The London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has set out its vision that London 2012 will be the first ‘public transport’ Games. The hope is that all visitors the Games will leave their cars at home and travel to venues by other means. Surrey County Council and Go Surrey are delighted to support this initiative and would urge all Surrey residents and visitors wishing to travel to the Games from Surrey to do so on public transport.
For more information on LOCOG’s transport plan for the Games please click here.
On days one, two and five (28, 29 July and 1 August 2012) of the Olympic Games, Surrey will be hosting the Olympic Road Race and Time Trial events. This will mean that the roads that make up the route, and some other roads, will be subject to closure. Please click here for more information on the Cycle Races including maps of the routes. A test event will be held on Sunday August 14 2011.
A significant part of the Olympic Route Network (ORN) will be within Surrey borders. This will include the M25 and the M3. The ORN is designed to connect all Olympic Games venues ensuring efficient travel for those involved in the Games (athletes, officials, press and the emergency services). For more information on the Olympic Route Network in Surrey please click here.
