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Guildford is the county's busiest railway station with almost eight million people boarding or leaving a train there in 2012/13, new figures have shown.

Statistics from the Office of Rail Regulation revealed that a total of 7,956,512 people travelled to or from the station in Surrey's county town - equating to one person every four seconds.

Following Guildford, other places that made the top five busiest railway stations in the county were Woking (7,462,936 passengers), Epsom (3,740,752), Redhill (3,629,342) and Staines (2,825,096).

The 10 busiest railway stations Source: Office of Rail Regulation

At the other end of the scale, the least busy station in Surrey was Longcross near Chertsey - which had just 5,086 people travelling to and from it in 2012/13.

Also in the top five least busy stations were Chilworth with 21,016 passengers, Betchworth (21,868), Ockley (45,430) and Holmwood (53,082).

The 10 least busy railway stations Source: Office of Rail Regulation

The situation could soon change at Longcross though, after plans to build offices and homes at the DERA site in Chobham Road were given the go-ahead.

A spokesman for developers Crest Nicholson and Aviva Investors said: "Longcross station was originally established to solely service the DERA site, which was, and is, closed to the general public.

"It currently has just a few trains stopping at it during peak times only, and there is understandably limited use at present.

"The current proposal for the DERA North site seeks to maximise the opportunities for using sustainable modes of transport, both to and from the site, and within it.

"Crest/Aviva are investing approximately £1.5m in improving both the station environment and the train service itself, which will provide a half-hourly service to Reading and London Waterloo throughout the day.

"In addition, new station parking and links directly to the site will provide employees and residents with the ability to more easily travel by rail from Longcross utilising the transformed services and station facilities."