London tube Ticket (OT)

Going on a visit to London with Grandson and want to buy a TravelCard for the Tube. I can easily do this on line but it will add on £2:50 in postage costs.

Does anyone know if I can buy one at the first Tube Station I go to (Could be Green Park)?

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DerbyBorn
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In message , DerbyBorn writes

Yes.

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usenet2012

Pretty certain they can be bought at any tube station or overground one.

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

How are you getting to London? If going by train, you can buy a tube pass with your rail ticket at the station you're starting from. [You

*may* even be able to buy one from your local railway station even if you're not going by train - not sure about that one.]
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Roger Mills

Roger Mills wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:

Bus - arriving at Park Lane. I kept getting directed to sites that wanted to send me tickets (Visitor Shop) - but I found on the TfL site that the tickets should be available at all Ticket Offices and many machines. Fingers crossed!

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DerbyBorn

You need to make sure that you buy the right one for the zones that you will be using.

And of course you can buy them when you get there. How do you think the people that live there get them?

tim

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tim.....

"tim....." wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:

I was beginning to think that there wers some Visitor / Transport Shops and that some stations were maybe all automated. Only been to London on business in recent years and a ticket was always provided for me. Sorry my question seemed a bit niave.

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DerbyBorn

In message , tim..... writes

The Oyster card is a yet unsolved mystery to me and I only live 20 miles away!

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Tim Lamb

Mornington Crescent.

Reply to
The Medway Handyman

Depending on what you're doing in London, a paper travelcard bought from a National Rail station (not a TfL station) is valid for 2-for-1 offers:

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need one per person for the offers, but it may be worth buying even if not needed for transport.

Owain

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Owain

You're thinking "If only Tim Lamb had posted about his unsolved mystery a few seconds earlier..."

Reply to
Graham.

You can also buy them at British Rail stations anywhere, either separately or as an extension to a normal rail ticket. I've bought them for travel the next day, I don't know whether you can buy them further ahead than that. The travelcard is a different option from the one that allows a single journey across London between BR termini.

If you have a railcard you can get a discount on the all-zones travelcard if you buy from a BR station.

Make sure that you know which underground zones you want to use. Note that any travelcard also works as a bus pass and bus travel is not limited to just the zones shown on the travelcard.

Just to complete the picture for anyone else planning on using public transport around London there is also the Oyster card. This is a prepayment card that is usable on all of the London transport network. You can either pre-charge it with credit and pay for single journeys, or precharge it with a travelcard in which case it works just like the paper travelcard. If you are travelling around London for more than a few days it pays to get an Oyster, even though you have to pay £4 for the card itself. Single journeys using Oyster are cheaper than the same journeys paid for with cash so you can save the £4 in two days.

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Bernard Peek

If if they are fully automated I'm pretty sure the machines will sell you a travecard for which ever zones you need. Might not be wise to try this in the rush hour as reading the instructions, following them, pressing the right buttons, feeding the money in, etc will be a slow process compared to the commuter who does it all on autopilot. Mind you how many people who use the London Transport system more than a couple of times a week don't have a Oyster card?

Not at all. The London Transport system is a mystery to me with zones, cards, shellfish, congestion charges, pollution control areas etc etc.

If you haven't already bought the bus tickets you may well find that there are some good deals with combined long distance bus ticket, TfL travel card, and admission to some attractions.

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Dave Liquorice

Zones are roughly concentric areas from the centre of London. If you're a tourist and sticking to the centre, you'd not need a card that allows you to go anywhere. Similarly, if you live in the suburbs, you may want one which allows local travel only, without paying for them all.

The Oyster card is merely a pre-payment debit card which is 'swiped' when used. It gives a considerable discount over paying cash.

You needn't concern yourself with the CC and pollution control areas if using PT>

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Dave Plowman (News)

In message , Graham. writes

Mornington Crescent has been closed for some time. Oyster cards however....

I see elsewhere it is a prepayment card which seems simple enough. There remains the mystery of how it might know where you are going when you swipe it. Possibly fares are fixed? Perhaps you tell the driver who sets the payment...

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Tim Lamb

Bus and tram fares are a fixed price per ride no matter what the distance is. For most other trips, you touch in and touch out, and the system deducts the calculated fare from the credit on your card as you leave the station. There is, with exceptions, a daily maximum equivalent to the cost of buying a one day travel card to cover the journeys you've made,

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John Williamson

In message , at 14:07:33 on Sun, 13 Jan

2013, "Dave Plowman (News)" remarked:

It's more than that, you can load season tickets onto it.

Reply to
Roland Perry

In message , at 14:34:45 on Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Tim Lamb remarked:

Not since 1998.

Reply to
Roland Perry

You do realise how long those buses can take to get into Park Lane? On a bad traffic day you can wait a long, long time just in the last few miles to your destination.

Reply to
Dom Ostrowski

You swipe at the beginning and end of the journey. No different from showing your ticket at either end.

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Dave Plowman (News)

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