When the trains stop
Waterloo’s last South Western services run between roughly 23:30 and 00:45, with earlier finishes on Sundays. The station itself closes overnight.
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 Waterloo at night
Woking, Guildford, Basingstoke, Winchester — the South Western commuter belt. Southampton and Portsmouth — including the cruise terminals and ferry ports. Surrey and Hampshire — door to door. Heathrow and Gatwick — for an early flight when the trains have stopped.
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.