Staines station loses every train on Sunday 27 September, the first of five closed weekends. Electricity works hit High Street and Thames Street to 25 Sept.

Most Staines roadworks are not really local. Spelthorne is four miles across at its widest and has a motorway on three sides of it, so what delays you here usually started somewhere else. The M25 runs down the western edge through junction 13 at Staines, the M3 starts at junction 1 at Sunbury, and Heathrow sits immediately north.

This week is the exception. The work that matters is in the middle of Staines and on the railway, and the motorways are quiet. Checked 20 September 2026.

Staines station shuts next Sunday, and that is the start of a six-week run

Sunday 27 September is the date to plan around. South Western Railway closes the lines in the Staines area all day for maintenance. What that means at this station:

  • London Waterloo to Reading trains are diverted between Clapham Junction and Virginia Water, calling instead at Wimbledon, Surbiton, Weybridge, Addlestone and Chertsey. They miss Staines altogether.
  • London Waterloo to Windsor services are diverted after Twickenham and terminate at Hounslow.
  • London Waterloo to Woking via Staines services terminate at Hounslow.
  • Buses run from Hounslow to Virginia Water, to Windsor and to Woking, all of them via Staines.

The part that has not been reported anywhere is what comes after it. Reading SWR’s October and November pages in full, the lines at Staines are closed on five of the six weekends between 27 September and 1 November, and the branch to Windsor loses its trains on five weekdays in half term as well.

Engineering work at Staines, 27 September to 1 November 2026
DatesWhat closesWhat runs
Sun 27 SepLines in the Staines area, all dayBuses Hounslow to Virginia Water, Windsor and Woking, via Staines
Sat 3 and Sun 4 OctLines in the Staines area, all weekend. On the Sunday, Teddington to Shepperton as wellBuses Hounslow to Virginia Water and Windsor via Staines; buses Teddington to Shepperton on the Sunday
Sat 10 and Sun 11 OctLines in the Staines area, all weekendBuses Hounslow to Virginia Water and Windsor via Staines
Sat 17 and Sun 18 OctNothing at Staines. On the Sunday the Twickenham area closesReading trains run, diverted between Putney and Feltham via Barnes and Hounslow
Sat 24 and Sun 25 OctLines in the Staines area, all weekendAn hourly Reading service starts from Staines; revised services Staines to Windsor and Staines to Weybridge; buses Twickenham to Staines and Hounslow to Staines
Mon 26 to Fri 30 OctStaines to Windsor, all five daysWindsor trains diverted after Staines and terminating at Ascot; buses Staines to Windsor
Sat 31 Oct and Sun 1 NovLines in the Staines area, all weekendBuses Hounslow to Virginia Water and Windsor via Staines

Two things in that table are worth separating out, because they change what you should do.

The weekend of 24 and 25 October is the odd one. It is the only closed weekend where trains still start from Staines. An hourly Reading service begins here, and revised services run from Staines to Windsor and from Staines to Weybridge. Towards London you are on a bus, to Twickenham or to Hounslow. On the other four closed weekends nothing at all calls here.

The Windsor branch closure is on weekdays. Monday 26 to Friday 30 October is half term, and for those five days the line between Staines and Windsor is shut, with Windsor trains diverted after Staines and terminating at Ascot. Buses cover Staines to Windsor.

SWR rewrites these pages in place, and it moved them to a new address in September, so an old bookmark now returns a 404 without telling you. We re-read all three month pages for this edition.

Engineering work at Staines station, 27 September to 1 November 2026 Calendar grid of six weekends. The lines in the Staines area are closed on Sunday 27 September, the weekend of 3 and 4 October, the weekend of 10 and 11 October, the weekend of 24 and 25 October and the weekend of 31 October and 1 November. The weekend of 17 and 18 October is clear at Staines, although the Twickenham area closes on the Sunday and reroutes the Reading trains. The line between Staines and Windsor is also closed on the five weekdays from Monday 26 to Friday 30 October. Five of the next six weekends shut the line at Staines South Western Railway planned engineering work affecting Staines station, 27 September to 1 November 2026. Mon to Fri Saturday Sunday 26 and 27 September CLOSED ALL DAY 3 and 4 October CLOSED CLOSED 10 and 11 October CLOSED CLOSED 17 and 18 October TRAINS RUN REROUTED 24 and 25 October PART SERVICE PART SERVICE 26 to 30 October STAINES TO WINDSOR CLOSED 31 October and 1 November CLOSED CLOSED On 24 and 25 October an hourly Reading train still starts from Staines. On the four dark weekends nothing calls here at all. The Shepperton branch also loses its trains on Sunday 4 October, between Teddington and Shepperton. Source: South Western Railway planned improvements pages for September, October and November 2026, read 20 September 2026. Graphic by Staines Online.
The only genuinely clear weekend at Staines between now and November is 17 and 18 October.

One electricity job is working its way through the middle of Staines

The busiest thing on the road this week is in the town centre, and it is a single job. Five separate permits on Surrey County Council’s register carry the same reference, TV014213832, and the same promoter, which the register names as Uk Power Distribution Ltd. Between them they cover most of the streets you would use to get through Staines:

  • Commercial Road, 20 to 23 September
  • Thames Street, 21 to 25 September
  • High Street, 21 to 25 September
  • Clarence Street, 21 to 25 September
  • Wraysbury Road, 21 to 24 September

The register logs all five as electricity works. It does not publish traffic management, so it will not tell you whether a street is closed, on lights or simply coned, and there is no statutory traffic order for any of them on the Public Notice Portal. Allow extra time across the town centre from Monday to Friday rather than assuming a particular street is shut.

Church Street is dug up in the same week, by a different promoter: Cadent gas, 22 to 24 September. That is the street with the Century House prior approval application on it.

The A30 through Ashford, both directions, all week

Scottish and Southern Power Distribution has two permits on the A30 between the A308 junction and the B378 junction, one for each direction, both booked 21 to 27 September. The register files them under Ashford North and Stanwell South. That is the London Road stretch, and it is the main alternative to the M25 for anyone heading towards Heathrow or Hounslow.

Nothing is published about how the A30 will be managed, and no traffic order for it has been advertised. Two directional permits on a dual carriageway for a full week is worth building into your morning either way.

The A308 at Sunbury: a five-week right turn ban starts on 30 September

This is the find in this week’s statutory notices, and it is on no council roadworks page.

On 16 September Surrey County Council made a Temporary Prohibition of Right Turn Order for Staines Road West (A308) at Sunbury-on-Thames. From 30 September it bans eastbound traffic on the A308 from turning right into Escot Road. The signed alternative is to carry on along Staines Road West and Staines Road East and come back. The order is for a new pedestrian crossing, the ban operates 24 hours a day, and the council expects the work to take five weeks.

Read that alongside the register and it tells you something the council has not said. The existing A308 permit at Sunbury Common, reference MA90091015190, has been running since 16 March and is booked to finish on 30 September. The right turn ban starts the same day. The works on that stretch of the A308 are not ending at the end of the month, they are changing shape.

The motorways are quiet at our end this week

National Highways’ seven day closure report, the workbook covering Friday 18 to Thursday 24 September, carries nothing at all at M25 junction 13, the A30 crossing between Staines and Egham, nothing at junction 14 at Stanwell Moor, and nothing at M3 junction 1 at Sunbury. The four nights of closures at the Heathrow end that dominated last week have finished.

What is booked, all of it overnight, is on the borough’s approaches:

  • Monday 21 September, 10pm to 5.30am. M25 clockwise junction 11 exit slip road at Chertsey, for inspection works.
  • Tuesday 22 September, 10pm to 5.30am. M25 anticlockwise junction 11 to junction 10, Chertsey to Wisley, for urgent loop repairs.
  • Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 September, 10pm to 5.30am. M25 anticlockwise junction 15 to the M4 junction 4B exit slip and link road, for resurfacing. Junction 15 is the M4 interchange north of Heathrow.
  • Wednesday 23 September, 10pm to 5.30am. M3 westbound junction 2 to the M25 junction 12 link road, for urgent safety fence repairs. That is the Thorpe interchange, the borough’s southern gate.

The report is republished twice a day on working days and it adds nights between editions, so a closure that is not in it today can appear tomorrow.

Worth remembering before you plan round any of it: Stanwell Moor Road, the obvious local road between the motorway and Staines, has been dug up by Affinity Water since 1 April and is booked to stay that way until 4 December.

The council’s roadworks list: 84 works, and a five day forward view

The Spelthorne table read on 20 September carried 84 rows. 43 have an end date of today or later and 20 have not started yet. The newest booked start date anywhere in it is 25 September, five days ahead.

That matters because this register spent a fortnight in August and early September frozen on a 25 August cut off, listing jobs that had already finished and showing nothing ahead. It caught up on 10 September and the catch up has held. It is a usable forward view again, with the caveat that utility companies can notify the county up to two hours after emergency works start and cannot be refused, so an empty forward list is not an empty fortnight.

The longest jobs open in the borough now

Road Area Promoter Ends
Staines Road West (A308) Sunbury Common Surrey County Council 30 September
Oakington Drive Sunbury East Cadent 2 October
Berryscroft Road Staines South Surrey County Council 3 October
Carlyle Road Riverside and Laleham Cadent 5 October
Church Road Ashford Town Surrey County Council 10 October
Batavia Road and Laburnum Crescent Sunbury East Connected Kerb 8 October
Laleham Road Riverside and Laleham Cadent 13 and 23 October
Lower Hampton Road Sunbury East Cadent 16 October
Wrens Avenue Ashford East Scottish and Southern 19 October
Fernhurst Road and Anderson Drive Ashford East Scottish and Southern 20 October
Priory Green Staines Surrey County Council 13 November
Kenton Avenue Sunbury East Cadent 4 December
Stanwell Moor Road Stanwell North Affinity Water 4 December

Three things have changed in that list since our last edition.

Priory Green in Staines is the longest new booking on the register. Surrey County Council started it on 20 September and has it booked to 13 November, eight weeks, described only as highways improvement works.

The electric vehicle charge point run has restarted. We reported on 13 September that the Connected Kerb works sharing reference 5A004 were almost finished, with only Peregrine Road left. Two new ones have since been booked, Batavia Road and Laburnum Crescent in Sunbury East, from 25 September to 8 October. The register describes them as highways improvement works and does not confirm what is being installed.

The A244 Windmill Road closure at Sunbury has gone. The made order that allowed nine nights of telecoms work from 7 September named no specific nights, and we said so at the time. Nine consecutive nights from the seventh would have ended on 16 September. Windmill Road appears in no permit on the current register in any month, the Dolphin Road South permit alongside it ended on 16 September, and no new order has been advertised. We could not get a first party statement that it has reopened, so if you are driving it late at night, the signs on the road are still the authority.

Starting in the next week

  • Clare Road, Stanwell North: BT, 21 to 23 September.
  • Whitley Close, Stanwell North: BT, 21 to 24 September.
  • Ravenscourt, Halliford and Sunbury West: BT, 21 to 23 September.
  • Watersplash Road, Laleham and Shepperton Green: Thames Water, 22 September, one day.
  • Kingston Road, Staines: Affinity Water, 22 to 25 September. This is the road to the station car park.
  • The Drive, Ashford Common: BT, 22 to 24 September.
  • Ashford Road, Riverside and Laleham: O2, 23 and 24 September.
  • Church Road, Ashford Town: Surrey County Council, 24 September to 10 October.
  • Maxwell Road, Ashford Common: BT, 24 to 29 September.
  • Fairfield Avenue, Staines: Scottish and Southern, 24 to 26 September.
  • Church Road, Ashford East: Surrey County Council, 25 September, one day.

The orders the roadworks list does not carry

Surrey’s register is a permit list. It does not carry the county’s own statutory traffic orders, and the batch published on 18 September holds four that affect this borough or the roads people here use. Two are made orders, two are proposals.

New Road, Staines. Made on 11 September, for 29 September. A waiting ban along the entire length of New Road for one day, 9.30am to 3.30pm, so that Lanes Group PLC can clean the sewer. It is a parking restriction rather than a closure, but if you leave a car on New Road that morning it will be in the way.

Staines Road West (A308), Sunbury. Made on 16 September, for 30 September. The five week right turn ban at Escot Road, set out above.

The service road fronting 5 to 47 School Road, Ashford. Proposed, from 5 October. A closure between the boundaries of numbers 19 and 23, 9.30am to 4pm, for up to three days, for Affinity Water mains maintenance. No property loses its only access and the diversion is along the rest of the service road and the B378 School Road.

Almners Road, Chertsey. Made on 16 September, for 28 September. Twenty nights, 8pm to 5am, for joint replacement work by Octavius Infrastructure. Chertsey is in Runnymede, about four miles south west of Staines, but the diversion runs through Lyne and along the A320 Staines Road, so it will put night traffic on a road plenty of people here use.

One more is worth a note for anyone who drives west. Surrey proposes to close the dedicated right hand lane of the A30 Egham By-Pass where it feeds the A320 towards Chertsey and Thorpe Park, for five days in phases from 15 October, for surface dressing. Egham is across the river, about two miles west of Staines. A proposed order is an intention, not a decision, and its dates can move.

The A308 cycle route: one section done, six months of it still to come

The big scheme in this borough is the A308 Staines Road West, the road that links the A30 and M25 junction 13 with the M3 and the A316, and therefore carries most of the traffic between Ashford, Heathrow, Staines and Sunbury. Surrey County Council puts the scheme at £10 million, funded jointly with Spelthorne Borough Council.

The scheme page was last reviewed on 8 September and has not moved since our last check:

  • Section 1, between the Fairways and School Road junctions, is complete, dated to August 2026.
  • Section 4, between the Shears and the Parade, is continuing and due to be completed in early October.
  • Section 2, School Road to Ashford Road and the Chertsey Road and Littleton Road junction at the Black Dog, is anticipated to start in mid-October and to take around six months. It adds shared-use footpath and raised crossings at the Hughes Road and Cecil Road junctions.

Six months of temporary traffic management on the Black Dog stretch of the A308, starting next month, is the single biggest thing on this page for anyone who drives across the borough. The council says it will write to nearby residents and update the scheme page once construction dates are confirmed.

The new pedestrian crossing at Escot Road, which has a made traffic order for 30 September, is not mentioned anywhere on that scheme page, and Escot Road is not one of the junctions the scheme lists.

The junction rebuilds at the Black Dog and the Shears were finished in November 2023 and November 2024. The council says the A308 will remain a two-lane dual carriageway when all of this is done.

There is one other borough scheme on Surrey’s own utility roadworks page, and it is badly out of date. The entry for the Studios Road, Squire’s Bridge Road and New Road junction at Shepperton, covering the Shepperton Studios expansion, still describes offline works that began on 17 June 2024 and traffic management starting “around mid-September 2024”. That page has not been rewritten in two years. The register is the dated source, and it has Surrey County Council on New Road at Laleham and Shepperton Green until 24 September.

Parking: the tariffs are in, and three council pages still have not caught up

Spelthorne’s Off-Street Parking Places Amendment Order came into operation on 8 September 2026. We first reported the gaps in the council’s own pages five days later. We re-read every car park page again on 20 September, twelve days after the Order took effect, and not one of the wrong ones has been fixed.

The Order sets one short-stay tariff for Elmsleigh Road, Elmsleigh Road Multi Storey, Elmsleigh Road Surface and Riverside Surface, and one long-stay tariff for Bridge Street and Kingston Road. Both are Monday to Saturday, with £2 flat from 7pm to midnight and £2 all day on Sunday.

Spelthorne car park tariffs in force since 8 September 2026
DurationShort stay: Elmsleigh x3 and Riverside SurfaceLong stay: Bridge Street and Kingston Road
Up to 1 hour£1.40£1.50
Up to 2 hours£2.40£2.60
Up to 3 hours£3.40£3.70
Up to 4 hours£5.00£5.20
Up to 5 hours£7.00£6.00
Over 5 hours£12.00£9.00
7pm to midnight£2.00£2.00
Sunday, all day£2.00£2.00

Bridge Street’s page is still wrong. On 20 September it was still last modified 12 August 2026 and still published the old long-stay ladder: £2.50 for two hours, £3.50 for three, £4.50 for four, £5.50 for five and £8 over five hours.

Every band from two hours up is understated, not just the commuter rate. The made Order puts Bridge Street on precisely the same schedule as Kingston Road, where the council’s own page, updated on 8 September, says £2.60, £3.70, £5.20, £6.00 and £9.00. Two council pages, one tariff, two sets of prices, six weeks apart. Read the tariff board at the machine before you assume either.

Bridge Street car park: what the council's page says against what the Order says, read 20 September 2026 Grouped bar chart. Bridge Street and Kingston Road share one long-stay tariff under the Order made for 8 September 2026, but Bridge Street's own page still shows the old prices. One hour is £1.50 on both. Two hours is £2.50 on the page against £2.60 in the Order, three hours £3.50 against £3.70, four hours £4.50 against £5.20, five hours £5.50 against £6.00, and over five hours £8.00 against £9.00. Bridge Street's page is a pound behind the Order for an all-day stay Long stay tariff for Bridge Street and Kingston Road, Staines. Monday to Saturday. Re-read 20 September 2026. Bridge Street page, last modified 12 August The Order, in force since 8 September Up to 1 hour £1.50 £1.50 Up to 2 hours £2.50 £2.60 Up to 3 hours £3.50 £3.70 Up to 4 hours £4.50 £5.20 Up to 5 hours £5.50 £6.00 Over 5 hours £8.00 £9.00 Kingston Road, on the identical tariff, had its page updated on 8 September and shows the right-hand figures. Add £2 flat from 7pm to midnight, and £2 all day on Sunday, on both. Source: Spelthorne Borough Council public notice of 13 August 2026 and its Bridge Street and Kingston Road car park pages, re-read 20 September 2026. Graphic by Staines Online.
The commuter bands are the ones that move, and Bridge Street's page still has not moved with them.

Four car parks became free, and none of them is in Staines

The same Order took four car parks out of the chargeable schedule and made them free parking places with an 11 hour maximum stay, from 8 September. They are Abbey Drive at Laleham, Dumsey Meadow at Shepperton, and the Old Bathing Station and Green Street at Sunbury-on-Thames, so none of them helps if you are parking in Staines town centre.

Twelve days on, nothing has been fixed. We re-read all four pages on 20 September. Dumsey Meadow, the Old Bathing Station and Sunbury Park and Green Street were all still last modified 11 August 2026 and all three still publish the old charges of £2 up to two hours and £4 over two hours. Abbey Drive’s page is still a 404. We have set that out in full in a separate report. If you use any of the four, read the signs at the car park rather than the website.

Sunbury’s other car parks are untouched by the Order. Thames Street and Orchard Meadow still give the first hour free, then £2 up to two hours and £4 all day, with a twelve-month local season ticket at £200.

Parking at the station

Kingston Road is the council car park closest to Staines station, with 196 spaces plus six disabled bays. It is now £9 for over five hours.

There is an oddity in its season tickets worth reading twice before you buy. A standard twelve-month season at Kingston Road costs £850. A twelve-month season for railway season ticket holders costs £900, and the three-month equivalents are £250 and £275. As published, rail commuters are charged £50 a year more than everyone else for the same space. The rail premium was still on the page when we re-read it on 20 September.

Affinity Water is booked in Kingston Road itself from 22 to 25 September.

What it means for you

Four things matter here, in the order they arrive.

  • Monday to Friday, all week. One electricity job is working through Commercial Road, Thames Street, High Street, Clarence Street and Wraysbury Road in Staines, and Cadent is in Church Street from Tuesday. Allow extra time across the town centre rather than betting on a particular street.
  • Monday to Sunday. The A30 through Ashford is permitted in both directions between the A308 and B378 junctions, 21 to 27 September.
  • Next Sunday, 27 September. Staines station has no trains at all. Buses run from Hounslow via Staines to Virginia Water, Windsor and Woking. It is the first of five closed weekends before November.
  • From 30 September, for five weeks. No right turn from the eastbound A308 Staines Road West into Escot Road at Sunbury, while a new pedestrian crossing goes in.

And if you park in a council car park: the new tariffs have been in force since 8 September, but Bridge Street’s own page still shows the old ones and the three free car parks still publish charges. The tariff board at the machine is the thing to read.

Where to check before you drive

Roadworks change weekly and no page can keep up with them, so these are the places to look:

  • Surrey County Council roadworks in your area, filtered to Spelthorne, for anything on a borough road, which is most of what will delay you. On 20 September it carried 84 works in Spelthorne with a forward view to 25 September.
  • National Highways road closure report for the M25, M3 and A30, where most closures are overnight and lifted by the morning peak. It is republished twice a day on working days.
  • Public Notice Portal, traffic and roads for the statutory orders, which is where the Escot Road right turn ban and the New Road waiting restriction are, and where the council’s own roadworks pages are not.
  • Surrey temporary bus changes, which names diverted routes and unserved stops that no roadworks page carries. On 20 September it listed no closure anywhere in Spelthorne, which is usable evidence that no borough road is badly shut today.
  • South Western Railway planned improvements for the weekend closures. The month pages get rewritten in place, so check the one for the month you are travelling in.

The routes that decide your journey

M25 junction 13 is the borough’s front door and its bottleneck. It carries the A30 across the motorway between Staines and Egham, and it is the last junction before the M25 crosses the Thames at Runnymede.

M25 junction 12 is the M3 interchange at Thorpe, junction 14 is the Heathrow Terminal 4 junction at Stanwell Moor and junction 15 is the M4. That is the stretch that closes overnight most often.

M3 junction 1 at Sunbury is the borough’s other motorway access, and the one worth using for anywhere south or west rather than fighting through Staines.

Staines Bridge carries the A308 over the Thames in the middle of the town. There is no alternative crossing inside the borough, so anything that closes it sends traffic to Chertsey Bridge or Walton Bridge, both several miles away.

The ULEZ line runs along the borough boundary

Spelthorne is in Surrey and outside the Ultra Low Emission Zone. TfL’s own guidance is that the ULEZ operates across all London boroughs and the City of London, and the M25 is not in the zone.

That has a practical consequence here that catches people out. Heathrow is in the London Borough of Hillingdon, and Feltham and Hanworth are in Hounslow. Drive north or east out of the borough in a non-compliant vehicle and the £12.50 daily charge applies, 24 hours a day, every day of the year except Christmas Day. Drive south or west and it does not. The line is close enough to the middle of Ashford and Stanwell that plenty of local journeys cross it.

Frequently asked questions

Is the M25 closed at Staines?

No. Nothing closes at junction 13, the A30 crossing between Staines and Egham, on any night in the current National Highways seven-day report, which runs to Thursday 24 September. Nothing closes at junction 14 at Stanwell Moor or at M3 junction 1 at Sunbury either. The closures this week are at Chertsey, at the M4 interchange and on the M3 link at Thorpe.

What roadworks are happening in Staines town centre?

One electricity job, carrying the reference TV014213832, covers five streets between 20 and 25 September: Commercial Road, Thames Street, High Street, Clarence Street and Wraysbury Road. Cadent is in Church Street from 22 to 24 September and Affinity Water is in Kingston Road from 22 to 25 September. Surrey’s register does not publish traffic management, so it does not say which of them are closed rather than coned.

Is the A308 closed at Sunbury?

Not closed, but from 30 September you will not be able to turn right off the eastbound A308 Staines Road West into Escot Road. Surrey County Council made a Temporary Prohibition of Right Turn Order on 16 September. It runs 24 hours a day for an expected five weeks while a new pedestrian crossing is built. The signed alternative is to continue along Staines Road West and Staines Road East and come back.

Are Staines trains affected by engineering work?

Yes, heavily, for six weeks. The lines at Staines close all day on Sunday 27 September, then all weekend on 3 and 4 October, 10 and 11 October, 24 and 25 October and 31 October and 1 November. The line from Staines to Windsor also closes on the five weekdays from 26 to 30 October. The only clear weekend is 17 and 18 October, and on that Sunday a closure at Twickenham reroutes the Reading trains between Putney and Feltham. On the Shepperton branch, Sunday 4 October is the date, with buses between Teddington and Shepperton.

Is Windmill Road in Sunbury still closed at night?

It does not appear to be. The made order allowed nine nights of telecoms work between 9pm and 6am from 7 September, without naming which nights. Nine consecutive nights from the seventh would have ended on 16 September. Windmill Road is in no permit on Surrey’s current register and no new order has been advertised. We could not get a first party confirmation that it has reopened, so treat the signs on the road as the authority.

How much is parking in Staines now?

Since 8 September 2026, £1.40 for an hour and £12.00 for over five hours at the Elmsleigh car parks and Riverside Surface, and £1.50 for an hour and £9.00 for over five hours at Kingston Road and Bridge Street. Bridge Street’s own council page has still not been updated and shows the old ladder, ending at £8.00. Thames Street and Orchard Meadow in Sunbury give the first hour free and charge £4.00 all day, and are not affected by the Order.

Is there free parking in Staines?

Not in a council car park in the town centre. The Order that took effect on 8 September moved four car parks into the schedule of free parking places with an 11 hour maximum stay, but all four are outside Staines: Abbey Drive at Laleham, Dumsey Meadow at Shepperton, and the Old Bathing Station and Green Street at Sunbury-on-Thames. Three of the four still publish charges on the council’s website, so check the signs at the car park.

Is Staines in the ULEZ?

No. Spelthorne is in Surrey, outside Greater London and outside the zone. But Heathrow, Feltham and Hanworth are all inside it, so a drive to the airport in a non-compliant vehicle costs £12.50.

Sources


Correction, 27 August 2026: an earlier version of this page said Staines kept its trains on Sunday 13 September. South Western Railway added a second Ascot area closure for that date after we published, and Reading services terminated at Staines. Corrected on 27 August 2026.