A Chatham to London taxi lives alongside one of the better rail links in the south — and thrives anyway, because 'London' is rarely where the train stops. It's a hospital appointment in one postcode, a theatre in another, a 5am start the timetable doesn't cover, a grandmother who doesn't do escalators. RushXO runs Medway to any London door at one fixed fare, at every hour, and lets the comparison stay honest.
We'll say it first: the train here is good
Medway's fast rail link to the capital is genuinely excellent, and any taxi page pretending otherwise would deserve your suspicion. So here's the honest division of labour: for one able traveller, light-handed, station-to-station in sociable hours — take the train, sincerely. This page exists for every journey that description doesn't cover, which turns out to be a great many of them — and for those, a fixed-fare door-to-door car isn't a luxury alternative, it's the only version that actually works.
When 'to London' means a door, not a station
The train's fine print is the two journeys hiding at its ends: getting to the Medway platform with whatever you're carrying, and crossing London from the terminus to wherever you're truly going. A hospital appointment, a wedding venue, a specific office at a specific hour — each adds a tube leg or a black-cab queue to the 'fast' option. The fixed-fare car deletes both ends: your door to that door, one seat, with the hardest part of the capital — the last two miles — handled by someone who does them daily.
The hours the timetable doesn't keep
London's early shifts, red-eye check-ins at the rail terminus hotels, post-theatre returns, hospital discharge times that answer to no schedule — the capital runs twenty-four hours and the timetable doesn't. Our Medway-to-London fare is identical at 4am and 4pm, which quietly makes the car the default for every journey the first and last trains bracket out. The city never closes; neither does the road to it.
Vehicles & pricing
Theatre-night pair in a saloon, hospital visit with a wheelchair-friendly vehicle, five-a-side's worth in an MPV — every Medway-to-London configuration carries its own fixed quote.
- Fare fixed and confirmed in writing at booking
- Driver allocated at booking — never found on the day
- One price at any hour, every day of the year
Chatham to London taxi FAQs
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Get your fixed fare
Name the actual London address — not the station near it — and the door-to-door fare comes back fixed in writing within the minute.