Top up Oyster online at the TfL website. You can also set an automatic top-up. For more information please visit Transport for London. Children aged over 10 years and 11 months and under 16 on 31 August can get an Zip Oyster photocard to :.
From 29 March, Oyster cards will no longer be available at Essex Road station. Discover how you can travel paperless on our trains with the Key Smartcard, eTickets or with Contactless instead.
These extensions allow customers to customers to use either a contactless card, mobile device or an Oyster card to pay for travel. As Oyster PAYG is based on single fares, there are occasions when Oyster may not be the cheapest option for your combination of journeys.
Details of PAYG single fares can here found here. Details of caps for extension stations can also be found on the TfL website.
Find out more about Oyster capping. Got a question about using Oyster on Great Northern? If you travel less than 5 days in any 7 then the Oyster Pay as You Go option will almost certainly be cheaper. This way of combining Oyster cards and Travelcards is covered in more detail on our London Travelcard page. To gain access to the trains of all types, and again to exit a station you have to pass through automatic barriers.
There is always one wide ticket barrier for wheelchairs, pushchair's and people with large suitcases. You swipe the Oyster Card over a bright yellow pad, the barrier will check validity and then open the barrier. This process is repeated at the destination and the fare is calculated and deducted from your Oyster. On buses you swipe the Oyster over the same yellow pad. That's it, you don't swipe again on exit. The London public transport system is divided up into zones that radiate from the centre.
Nearly all the main hotel districts and the main sights of London are in Zone 1. For the vast majority of visitors you will only travel in the two most central zones 1 and 2, though many may make an odd trip to places like Heathrow Airport or the Harry Potter Film Studios in the outer zones.
Some stations like Turnham Green are in two zones, you use whichever zone for these stations is most beneficial in working out your fare. The fare you pay is set by which zones your departure and destination stations are in.
Your journey starts when you go through the ticket barrier of the station entrance you depart from and finishes when you pass through the ticket barrier at the exit of your destination. You cannot break a journey on a single fare - once you go though the exit barrier of a station that is journey completed. At London Underground and DLR interchange stations you do not normally go through a ticket barrier to switch train and your fare is calculated as one journey, the exit barrier at your ultimate destination being the end point of your journey.
At major railway stations like Victoria and Euston, where you may interchange between a commuter train and the London Underground, you will normally have to go through ticket barriers to make the interchange. At these stations you are given a short time period minutes to make the interchange - have a coffee or take a longer break and you will be charged for 2 separate journeys. London's red buses do not have zones.
With Oyster, a flat fee per bus journey is charged wherever and whenever you ride. Price caps are the maximum you will pay in a day, a price ceiling. No matter how many individual trips you make in any 24 hour period between 4. This price cap spreads across all modes of transport, so if you mix bus, underground and DLR in one day the same price cap applies.
All other travel is off-peak. Also the 7 day cap for contactless payment cards between Monday to Sunday - not available on Oyster. Peak: approx half of adult cap. Every time you make a journey on London's public transport your Oyster card is charged a fare. Once you reach the daily cap see above in a day no more fares are deducted from your Oyster card.
Children travel free if under 11 year old or are between 11 and 15 years with an Oyster Photocard. On services operated by the railways such as Gatwick trains for example, only children under 5 travel free, child rate fares are available with the appropriate age Oyster Zip card.
This in scope is the same as a 1 day off-peak Travelcard for zones and providing unlimited travel on all services after 9. The pricing is particularly attractive if you have kids in the group and those staying in one of the outer zones, however if you are staying in the centre of London zones 1 to 3 it will be cheaper to purchase individual Oyster cards.
There are no seniors fares for visitors. If you reside in London and are of pensionable age you can get a Freedom pass giving free travel. You can apply online or get a form from your local Post Office. Anybody with an English National Concessionary bus pass can use that on London's red buses too and travel free of charge. You have to ask a member of staff to load the concession onto a standard Oyster card note, not a Visitors Oyster card at an Underground Station after showing your Seniors Card.
If you have a railways Seniors Railcard you can also buy 1 day off-peak zone Travelcards at with the discount applied. If you need help, ask a member of station staff. Travelcards are not valid on riverboat services, but Uber Boat by Thames Clippers and most river tour companies offer a one third discount on production of a valid Travelcard. Buy a Visitor Oyster card before you visit London and get it delivered to your home address.
You can choose how much credit to add to your card. Read more. Alternatively, you can use a contactless payment card to pay for your travel around London. You can, if you prefer, pay for your Visitor Oyster card using a different currency.
The VisitBritain Shop is available in a number of different languages and currencies — use the flag icons in the middle of the page to select by country. If you run out of credit on your Visitor Oyster card you can add more credit at the following locations:.
Oyster cards work in the same way as Visitor Oyster cards but do not include special offers and promotions. Visitor Oyster cards can be purchased by non-UK residents before they travel. If you live in the UK, you can buy an Oyster card and have this delivered to your home address before you travel to London. Alternatively, download the TfL Oyster app to top up your pay-as-you-go credit and buy adult-rate 7 Day, Monthly and Annual Travelcards on the go.
You can also use a contactless payment card to pay for your travel around London. A 1-Day Travelcard is a paper ticket which allows you to travel as much as you like, as often as you like, for a single day.
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