When the trains stop
Victoria’s last Southern and Gatwick Express services run between roughly 23:30 and 00:30. After that there is no rail link to Gatwick at all until the early hours.
Your options after the last train
- Night buses. Useful inside London. Useless if you are heading out of it.
- A hotel. Expensive at short notice, and you still have to travel in the morning.
- Ride-hail. Surges hard outside a terminus at midnight, and longer journeys are often declined.
- A fixed-fare car. Door to door, price agreed before the driver moves, at any hour.
Where we take people from Victoria at night
Gatwick Airport — when the Gatwick Express has stopped and you have an early flight. Brighton and the Sussex coast. Kent — Bromley, Sevenoaks, Maidstone, Canterbury: our home county. Surrey — Croydon, Sutton, Epsom.
At the station now? WhatsApp your destination — fixed fare in minutes, and no night surcharge. The 01:00 fare is the 13:00 fare.
The honest bit
If a night bus goes where you are going and you are travelling light, take the night bus — it is £1.75 and we would be taking your money for nothing. A car earns its place on distance, luggage, groups, and the hours when nothing else runs.