Furthest you have ever caught a cab.

[ZR1cliff]

Nearly every night i pick up sleepers off the trains that want to get back to places like Woking £70 camberley £45,Surbiton £90 (all these are late night prices),and i see business men that fall asleep on a train on a regular bassis ,its got worse since they got rid of the old 'slam door' stock :hehe:.
The furthest ive been is Cardiff and Mansfield(not sleepers but one offs).
Whats the furthest you guys have caught a cab?
Have you fallen asleep on a train and ended up else where?

[Plotloss]

Bethnal Green to Windsor.

Couldnt be arsed with public transport.

[nonegreen]

I know soemone who got a cab from southampton to chorley no idea how much it cost though

[blindswelledrat]

What were the cardiff/mansfieldfares cliff?

[ofcorsa]

when my car broke down, lincoln to rotherham, about £55 i think,

[maxf]

Cambridge to Peterborough - trains ed up so had to get a slow train to Cambridge then wing it from there.

[popov123]

My ex was off on hols with a girly friend and got delayed. The delays continued throughout the day and into the night. Eventually they were karted off to a hotel for the night, hotel soon fills up so they are moved again to another hotel even further away.

Cue loads of wine, swiftly followed by major barney with fellow traveller, ex decided to get herself a cab...

£175!!! Stansted to Norwich

Im glad to say I managed to talk her out of it and she eventually had a nice holiday (albeit two days shorter).

[scorp]

Pontefract to Harrogate, cost about 70quid or so (1997).

[ZR1cliff]

blindswelledrat said:

What were the cardiff/mansfieldfares cliff?

They were a few years back now but they would cost in thr region of £300 these days maybe more like £400 for mansfield,these are after eleven prices(50% more).

[cotty]

When I was young and skint after a heavy night on the tiles, I ended up sleeping all the way to Tonbridge. Cab would have cost £60 to get to Orpington (would only have been £30 from London).

They close the station at night so wandered the streets for a few hours. Got the 5am train to Orpington got an hours kip the into work for a few hours then down the pub for lunch.

You can do these things when your young

[milfordkong]

From Beijing to the Simitai section of the Great Wall of China and back (160 mile round trip)

The driver just waited for us and bought us back, all I can remember is that it worked out very very cheap between the 4 of us.

[ZR1cliff]

nonegreen said:

I know soemone who got a cab from southampton to chorley no idea how much it cost though

£££££££££££££££££££££££'s

Ime terrible,ive just realised i prey on other peoples misfortunes,oh and you cant come in with that fag....Health & Safety ,dont you know.

[chilli]

ZR1cliff said:

nonegreen said: I know soemone who got a cab from southampton to chorley no idea how much it cost though £££££££££££££££££££££££'s Ime terrible,ive just realised i prey on other peoples misfortunes,oh and you cant come in with that fag....Health & Safety ,dont you know.

That you may do, but I've done this countless times, and the ONE THING you are preying for...the most important thing in your life at that moment, is the fact that there's a cab there waiting....So many thanks!!!

[ATG]

After failing to notice the train timetable had been changed, London to Malvern (in Worcs) for a mate's wedding. Very nearly had to take a cab from Istanbul to Ankara.

[ultimasimon]

Heathrow to Birmingham

Twas £330 and had to deliver the MD's laptop and fix it on the way using some disks, a USB memory stick and and the power plug from the cabi's ciggy lighter

Got a lift back from him in his new Merc 600SL
and charged him £550 for my efforts

[MARQUE]

london c/x to gravesend 80 quid..after midnight it goes up massivly

[minimax]

nottingham to newmarket via leicester to watch the races...£370 and back.

expenses

>> Edited by minimax on Wednesday 26th October 14:00

[princeperch]

london paddington to Reading, was quite expensive...

[Marki]

San Diego to Tiuanja Mexico dont ask it was late and all the bars were closing and we needed a drink, and we seemed to be on the lash for days , well ok we were

>> Edited by Marki on Wednesday 26th October 14:06

[swilly]

Cardiff to Birmingham, £300, paid by Railtrack i believe when my train was late missing my connection.