Elmbridge Roadworks: A307 Cobham and Rail Buses on 15 Nov

On Sunday 15 November, buses replace trains between Clapham Junction and Surbiton, Hampton Court, Weybridge and Effingham Junction. That covers every line through Elmbridge, so plan Sunday trips to London around a bus.

On the roads, Southern Gas Network’s mains replacement on the A307 Portsmouth Road in Cobham carries on under temporary traffic lights, booked to 12 February 2027. In Weybridge, Locke King Road is closed for three days from Monday 9 November.

The Brooklands Road overnight closure that led this page last week reaches its booked end on Saturday 7 November.

These Elmbridge roadworks entries were all checked on Friday 6 November against National Highways, Surrey County Council’s roadworks register, the statutory traffic notices, Surrey’s bus disruption page and National Rail.

The trains: two Sundays of replacement buses

Sunday 15 November. National Rail’s notice says engineering work closes all lines between Clapham Junction and Surbiton. Buses replace trains between:

• Clapham Junction and Surbiton
• Clapham Junction and Hampton Court, for Thames Ditton and Hampton Court
• Clapham Junction and Weybridge, for Esher, Hersham and Walton-on-Thames
• Clapham Junction and Effingham Junction, for Hinchley Wood, Claygate, Oxshott and Cobham and Stoke d’Abernon
• Weybridge and Addlestone

Trains from Waterloo to Shepperton, Portsmouth Harbour and the south coast are diverted and retimed.

Sunday 8 November. A separate notice has buses replacing trains between Weybridge and Woking, Guildford and Aldershot. That affects journeys west of Weybridge. The notice does not list any closure between Weybridge and London that day. On Saturday 7 November the closure is further west, between Woking and Farnborough, Guildford and Ash.

We found no other National Rail notice for an Elmbridge station between now and 22 November.

Portsmouth Road, Cobham: lights until 12 February 2027

Southern Gas Network began replacing the gas mains in Portsmouth Road, Cobham on 1 September. Surrey’s register still books it to 12 February 2027. Temporary traffic lights are in place throughout, and the work runs in phases.

That is the A307, the road Cobham uses to reach Esher and Kingston one way and the A3 the other. There is no realistic alternative for through traffic.

Nearby, SGN is booked on Copse Road, Cobham to 12 November. Virgin Media has Four Wents and Between Streets in Cobham booked for 9 to 12 November.

Closures in the next fortnight

Surrey’s 30 October notice made one order and proposed four more for Elmbridge roads:

• Locke King Road, Weybridge: order made on 23 October. Closed from Edge Close to the end of the road for 3 days from 9 November, 8am to 4pm, for UK Power Networks cable work. The notice says there is no alternative route; emergency services, residents, pedestrians and cyclists keep access. Surrey’s register books UKPN there from 9 to 13 November.
• Copsem Lane, Esher (A244): proposed. Closed from Milbourne Lane to the A3 Esher bypass roundabout for 8 days, 24 hours a day, from 16 November, for patching. The signed diversion runs through Cobham and Oxshott. Surrey’s register does not yet carry it.
• Hurst Road and Riverbank, East Molesey (A3050): proposed, 24 hours a day, for patching and surface dressing “as soon as possible” in an 18-month order starting 14 November. The notice gives no number of days. Diversions run via Esher, Hersham and Walton.
• Rydens Grove, Hersham: proposed, 2 days from 23 November, 8am to 4pm, for Affinity Water. There is no access through the closure for cars or cyclists.
• Queens Road, Hersham (westbound, by Westcar Lane): proposed, 1 day from 29 November, 9.30am to 4pm, for Affinity Water. Diversion via Burwood Road and Westcar Lane.

A proposed order can still change or be dropped. We will move each one to “made” when Surrey publishes the making notice.

Arran Way, Esher becomes a school street from 9 November. Surrey made an experimental order on 27 October. Motor vehicles are barred Monday to Friday, 8am to 9am and 2.30pm to 3.45pm, in term time. Residents and some others can get a free permit.

The SGN waiting restrictions made on 25 September continue: Warwick Road, Thames Ditton from 16 November for three weeks and Speer Road from 30 November for a month, 7am to 4pm. The register books SGN gas work on Speer Road from 2 to 27 November.

Couchmore Avenue, Esher: the bridge closure the register does not show

Surrey County Council made the order on 30 September, in its 2 October notice. It closes the length of Couchmore Avenue (D6819) from its junction with the A307 Portsmouth Road to its junction with Macaulay Avenue, from 5 October. The road sits in the Hinchley Wood and Weston Green ward; the notice gives the address as Esher.

What the made order says:

• the work is installation of a new bridge deck, with resurfacing, road markings and maintenance
• it is expected to take 12 weeks, which runs to the end of December
• hours are 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday, and 8am to 4pm at weekends
• pedestrians, dismounted cyclists and equestrians keep access at all times
• emergency services, residents and businesses get access via Couchmore Avenue, Montgomery Avenue, Kingston Bypass and Portsmouth Road

Surrey’s register on 6 November still has no entry for Couchmore Avenue, and it has never carried a permit for the bridge deck. We could not confirm from any council source whether the closure is in place.

The A3 and M25: nothing booked near Elmbridge

National Highways’ closure report, in the edition covering Thursday 5 to Wednesday 11 November, has no closure on the A3 at Esher, Painshill or Wisley, and none on the M25 between junctions 8 and 12. The nearest A3 work is south of Guildford. The report is reissued daily and nights are often added, so check it on the day.

Surrey’s register does carry National Highways on Byfleet Road and Portsmouth Road, Weybridge, 14 and 15 November, described only as “highways improvement works”. Surrey has its own tree work on the Kingston Bypass in Hinchley Wood and Long Ditton across 9 to 14 November. The register does not say whether any of these closes a lane.

What has come off the list

• Brooklands Road and Hanger Hill, Weybridge. Both are booked to end on 7 November. We never found a notice making the proposed Hanger Hill closure.
• Curzon Road, Weybridge, Holtwood Road, Oxshott and Hare Lane, Claygate. Their made orders covered late October dates that have passed.
• The M25 junction 9 and 11 to 12 closures and the A3 Wisley link night of 2 November are no longer in the National Highways report.
• Matham Road, East Molesey, Lower Green Road, Esher, and Coveham Crescent and Fairmile Lane, Cobham have not been on Surrey’s register for at least two weeks. No source gives a reopening date for any of them.

What else is booked: 106 jobs to 14 November

Surrey’s register today lists 106 works in Elmbridge, every one of them live or still to start. The newest is booked to begin on 14 November, and 54 start after today. Surrey County Council has 37 of the 106, BT 17, SGN 16, Thames Water 10, Affinity Water 8, Virgin Media 7, UK Power Networks 5, National Highways and Sutton and East Surrey Water 2 each, and Box Broadband and O2 1 each.

These are the jobs that run longest, or that land on a main road:

An empty forward list is not the same as an empty fortnight. Utility companies can notify Surrey up to two hours after emergency works start, and the council cannot refuse them. Surrey’s bus disruption page, reviewed on 5 November, had no Elmbridge entry.

Fairoak Lane, Chessington: diverted traffic through Oxshott

The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames has made the order, dated 1 October, to close B280 Fairoak Lane from outside the electrical sub-station to No.45 from Wednesday 14 October, for high voltage cable work expected to take two months.

Fairoak Lane is in Chessington, outside the borough, about two miles east of Oxshott. It matters here because of where the traffic goes. The signed alternative route is A243 Leatherhead Road, A243 Kingston Road, A244 Oxshott Road, A244 Leatherhead Road and A244 Warren Lane, which routes it straight through Oxshott. We have not found a Kingston update since the order, so the two months are the order’s estimate, not a confirmed end date.

The M25 junction 10 scheme: the project page is now three months out of date

The £317 million rebuild of M25 junction 10 and the A3 Wisley interchange was supposed to finish in spring 2026. National Highways’ project page still gives spring 2026 as the end date, and its most recent update is still dated 7 August, when we checked it on 6 November.

Junction 10 is Cobham’s junction, and the A3 through Painshill is how Esher and Cobham reach the M25 in either direction. The scheme has added a lane on the A3 in both directions between Ockham and Painshill, enlarged the roundabout, and put free-flow left turns at all four corners.

For what is actually shut, use the seven day closure report, which National Highways now reissues daily.

The routes that carry everything

Elmbridge has no bypass and no ring road. Five routes do nearly all the work, and when one of them goes, the alternatives are long.

The A3 runs the length of the borough, past Esher and Painshill, and is the link to both London and the M25. The A244 ties Walton to Esher and on to Oxshott and Leatherhead, and carries Walton Bridge. The A307 Portsmouth Road runs Kingston to Esher to Cobham, and is the road now facing months of gas works. The A309 comes in from Hampton Court to the Scilly Isles roundabout at Esher, where it meets the A3 and the A307. And Walton Bridge is the only road crossing of the Thames between Hampton Court Bridge and Chertsey Bridge, so anything that shuts it pushes traffic several miles either way.

Surrey County Council is the highway authority for all of these except the A3 and the M25, which are National Highways. That split is worth knowing before you report a pothole to the wrong body.

The parking fines being refunded: 1,924 claims so far

If you were fined in an Elmbridge council car park between January 2020 and April 2026, check whether you are owed money. The council issued 9,318 penalty charge notices in the affected car parks since 2020, apologised at its May 2026 Cabinet meeting for a procedural error affecting its parking arrangements, and opened a refund scheme in June.

The car parks affected are in Esher, Cobham, Hersham, Walton-on-Thames and Weybridge. The council’s figures, checked on 28 October, cover 3 June to 20 October:

• eligible applications received: 1,924
• paid: 1,827
• ready for payment: 2
• in progress: 95

The subtotals add to exactly 1,924, as they have each time. That is about 21% of the notices the council says it issued in error, and 42 more claims than the council’s previous figures, which ran to 13 October.

The claim deadline is 5pm on 1 March 2027, and the scheme closes at the end of that month. That date is not on the council’s refund pages: it is in the Cabinet papers that set the scheme up. Our full write-up is at Elmbridge parking fine refunds.

It aims to pay valid claims within two weeks. You apply through the council’s parking fine refund page with your registration number and proof of payment, or by phone on 01372 474 474. Separately, the council warns of a text message scam demanding payment of parking fines. It does not chase penalty charges by text.

What it costs to park

The council froze its parking charges in June 2026 and added free time rather than raising prices. Its standard tariff, at Esher Civic Centre and Cobham Cedar Road among others, was unchanged when we last checked it, on 2 October:

Charges apply Monday to Saturday 8am to 6pm and Sunday 10am to 5pm, and not at all on bank holidays and public holidays. Blue Badge holders park free in the pay and display car parks. You can pay by cash, contactless or RingGo.

Three things are worth knowing. The free 30 minutes now applies in 22 car parks across Claygate, Cobham, Esher, Hersham, Long Ditton, Molesey, Oxshott, Thames Ditton, Walton-on-Thames and Weybridge, but you still have to take a ticket. Free evening parking now starts at 6pm rather than 7pm in the town centre car parks at Esher, Cobham, Walton and Weybridge. And a season ticket or resident permit is available for most of them, which is the sensible option if you commute from a station without its own space.

Getting out without the car

Every town in the borough has a station, and for London the train beats the car comfortably: 22 minutes from Walton-on-Thames to Waterloo, against an A3 journey that depends on which slip roads are shut that night. Full journey times, peak frequencies and season ticket prices for all ten stations are on our trains to London page.

Two stations, Hampton Court and Thames Ditton, are in London fare zone 6, so you can turn up and touch in with a contactless card rather than buying a ticket.

Where to check before you set off

• National Highways seven day closure report for A3, M25 and M3 closures. A spreadsheet with one sheet per night, now reissued daily, and the most reliable of the lot.
• Surrey County Council roadworks in Elmbridge is the searchable list by road and ward, covering today to the end of next week.
• Surrey County Council temporary bus changes is the one that carries closures the roadworks pages miss, with the diverted routes and the stops that cannot be served.
• Surrey County Council major utility roadworks for the gas, water and cable schemes big enough to close a road, listed by borough. This is where the Portsmouth Road job is.
• Public Notice Portal for the statutory traffic orders, which carry the exact extent of a closure, its diversion and whether it is proposed or made.
• National Highways M25 junction 10 for the scheme itself, when it is updated.
• South Western Railway planned engineering work for weekend line closures before you swap the car for the train.
• Elmbridge Borough Council car parks for tariffs, permits and the finder for all 28 council car parks.

Sources

• National Rail, buses replace South Western Railway services via Wimbledon, Sunday 15 November 2026, checked 6 November, for the closure between Clapham Junction and Surbiton, the six bus-replacement sections and the diverted Shepperton and long-distance trains.
• National Rail, buses replace trains via Woking, 7 and 8 November 2026, checked 6 November, for the Saturday closure west of Woking and the Sunday buses between Weybridge and Woking, Guildford and Aldershot. National Rail’s planned-incidents sitemap, checked the same day, lists no other notice for an Elmbridge station to 22 November.
• National Highways, seven day closure report, the spreadsheet covering 5 to 11 November 2026, checked 6 November, for the absence of any A3 closure at Esher, Painshill or Wisley and any M25 closure between junctions 8 and 12.
• Surrey County Council, roadworks in Elmbridge, checked 6 November 2026, for the works table, the 106 rows, the 54 starting after today, the 14 November newest start date, the counts by promoter, the Portsmouth Road gas scheme, the Locke King Road, Byfleet Road and Kingston Bypass bookings, and the absence of any Couchmore Avenue or Copsem Lane entry.
• Surrey County Council, temporary bus changes, reviewed 5 November and checked 6 November 2026, which carries no Elmbridge entry.
• Public Notice Portal, Surrey multiple traffic notices, published 30 October 2026 for the made Locke King Road and Molesey Road orders and the proposed Copsem Lane, Hurst Road and Riverbank, Rydens Grove and Queens Road orders.
• Public Notice Portal, Arran Way, Esher school streets experimental order, published 30 October 2026 for the hours, the permit scheme and the 9 November start.
• Public Notice Portal, Surrey multiple traffic notices, published 2 October 2026 for the made Couchmore Avenue order and the made Warwick Road and Speer Road order.
• Public Notice Portal, Fairoak Lane temporary road closure, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, dated 1 October 2026 for the made order, the 14 October start, the two months and the signed alternative route through Oxshott.
• National Highways, M25 junction 10, showing a spring 2026 end date and a most recent update of 7 August 2026 when checked on 6 November.
• Elmbridge Borough Council, parking fine refunds, dated 15 October 2026 and checked 28 October, for the refund figures covering 3 June to 20 October and the 9,318 penalty charge notices.
• Elmbridge Borough Council, Civic Centre car park, Esher for the tariff table, the operating hours and the bank holiday exemption.

Roadworks change at short notice and overnight closures are often cancelled or moved for weather. The roadworks and trains on this page were checked on 6 November 2026, the parking refund figures on 28 October and the car park tariffs on 2 October. Confirm against the live sources before you travel.

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