01 — Meeting your chauffeur
Meeting at Guildford Station
- The chauffeur checks the booked train where live running times are published.
- Leave the platform and follow signs to the agreed station exit.
- Go to Walnut Tree Close entrance.
- Read the approach message and identify the confirmed vehicle.
- Meet the chauffeur, confirm the destination and continue to the car.
- 36min
- to Heathrow
- 46min
- to Gatwick
- 63min
- to central London
Road times are live-traffic estimates for a weekday morning; your quoted price uses your exact addresses.
02 — The station handover
Where the chauffeur meets you at Guildford
Your meeting point is outside the main ticket-hall doors on the Walnut Tree Close side. The relevant route from the train is the main exit towards Walnut Tree Close. The approach message names the chosen side, the vehicle and the nearest public doors. The chauffeur does not wait in a taxi-only rank or an active loading lane; if the kerb is controlled, the passenger and chauffeur meet first and walk to the car together. Guildford is served by the Portsmouth Direct and North Downs routes.
For a departure, the car uses a signed station set-down point reached from Walnut Tree Close. The final approach is via Walnut Tree Close, keeping the opposite station side explicit. The chauffeur unloads the booked luggage at a permitted place and leaves the stopping area promptly. The main hall connects to the footbridge and subway routes for the platforms. Station signs, road restrictions and staff directions govern the exact point available on the day, so a temporary closure may move the handover to a nearby lawful bay.
03 — Four details to save
Guildford meeting and set-down points
- Exit
- Walnut Tree Close entrance
- Follow station signs from the platform to this agreed side.
- Set-down
- Walnut Tree Close set-down
- Used for unloading, subject to current signs.
- Waiting
- Station car park
- a lawful car-park space away from the taxi rank and bus stops
- Return
- Walnut Tree Close entrance
- The vehicle point is confirmed after passenger and chauffeur meet.
04 — Continue the journey
Journeys and nearby stations from Guildford
05 — Passenger and luggage
The station meeting continues at the car
The chauffeur confirms the passenger and onward address, assists with the recorded luggage and uses the permitted vehicle point stated in the approach message.
06 — Delayed trains and onward roads
Keeping a Guildford collection connected
Where the rail operator publishes live running times for the booked service, FCET follows them and adjusts the collection plan for a reported delay. Live rail data does not identify when a particular passenger has reached the concourse, so the passenger still texts after leaving the platform. If no usable running information is published, that message becomes the timing update. The agreed meeting point remains Walnut Tree Close entrance unless both sides confirm a change.
Road guides from the station are 27.1 miles and about 35 minutes to Heathrow, 35.9 miles and about 45 minutes to Gatwick, and 31.4 miles and about 1 hour 5 minutes to central London. Luton, Stansted and London City are included in the journey links below. These figures are planning guides; traffic, the terminal and the complete destination can change the booked schedule.
FCET service assurances
Booked train services are followed where the operator publishes live running times; otherwise the passenger updates the chauffeur by text · DBS-checked chauffeurs · Chauffeur-driven travel since 2004
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