 That curve is little used although from 2000 to 2002 the London Crosslink service of Anglia Railways from Colchester and Ipswich to Basingstoke via north London and Staines, which used Class 170 DMUs, took it.Trains are generally operated by Class 707s, but some Class 450 and 458 units work the line too

Between Virginia Water and Chertsey, the line crosses the M25 motorway by means of a cable-stayed bridge.The bridge is of note because it is one of few such bridges to carry a heavy railway required here as the railway approaches the motorway at an angle of 28 degrees.