01 — Meeting your chauffeur
Meeting at Maidenhead Station
- The chauffeur checks the booked train where live running times are published.
- Leave the platform and follow signs to the agreed station exit.
- Go to Shoppenhangers Road entrance.
- Read the approach message and identify the confirmed vehicle.
- Meet the chauffeur, confirm the destination and continue to the car.
- 22min
- to Heathrow
- 60min
- to Gatwick
- 51min
- to central London
Road times are live-traffic estimates for a weekday morning; your quoted price uses your exact addresses.
02 — The station handover
Where the chauffeur meets you at Maidenhead
Your meeting point is outside the main ticket-hall doors on the Shoppenhangers Road side. The relevant route from the train is the main station exit towards Shoppenhangers Road. The approach message repeats the station side and supplies the car description. The chauffeur does not wait in a taxi-only rank or an active loading lane; if the kerb is controlled, the passenger and chauffeur meet first and walk to the car together. Maidenhead is served by Great Western Main Line and Elizabeth line trains, with the Marlow branch connection.
For a departure, the car uses the signed forecourt set-down beside the main entrance. The final approach is via Shoppenhangers Road, distinguishing it from entrances across the railway. The chauffeur unloads the booked luggage at a permitted place and leaves the stopping area promptly. The ticket hall leads to the gateline and footbridge for all platforms. Station signs, road restrictions and staff directions govern the exact point available on the day, so a temporary closure may move the handover to a nearby lawful bay.
03 — Four details to save
Maidenhead meeting and set-down points
- Exit
- Shoppenhangers Road entrance
- Follow station signs from the platform to this agreed side.
- Set-down
- Main entrance forecourt
- Used for unloading, subject to current signs.
- Waiting
- Station short-stay parking
- a lawful short-stay space in station parking, clear of the taxi rank
- Return
- Shoppenhangers Road entrance
- The vehicle point is confirmed after passenger and chauffeur meet.
04 — Continue the journey
Journeys and nearby stations from Maidenhead
05 — Passenger and luggage
The station meeting continues at the car
The chauffeur confirms the passenger and onward address, assists with the recorded luggage and uses the permitted vehicle point stated in the approach message.
06 — Delayed trains and onward roads
Keeping a Maidenhead collection connected
Where the rail operator publishes live running times for the booked service, FCET follows them and adjusts the collection plan for a reported delay. Live rail data does not identify when a particular passenger has reached the concourse, so the passenger still texts after leaving the platform. If no usable running information is published, that message becomes the timing update. The agreed meeting point remains Shoppenhangers Road entrance unless both sides confirm a change.
Road guides from the station are 16.6 miles and about 20 minutes to Heathrow, 53.4 miles and about 1 hour to Gatwick, and 29.7 miles and about 50 minutes to central London. Luton, Stansted and London City are included in the journey links below. These figures are planning guides; traffic, the terminal and the complete destination can change the booked schedule.
FCET service assurances
Booked train services are followed where the operator publishes live running times; otherwise the passenger updates the chauffeur by text · DBS-checked chauffeurs · Chauffeur-driven travel since 2004
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