Calling Laardoners - Oyster card help please!

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ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
Location
Rides Ti2
I purchased a Visitor Oyster Card last summer and found it easy to use once I got the hang of swiping out at the end of a journey.
When I was back home, I phoned the TfL helpline to see how much I had left on it but they couldn't tell me. Data protection was quoted as the reason!
The chap did tell me that I had enough left on it for a bus ride or two though..


You can register the card on the Oyster site and see/update/top up your balance.
 

ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
Location
Rides Ti2
Isn't there some kind of Undergound ticket we can buy online before travelling, so as to reduce the stress?

Yes, it's called an Oyster card or contactless payment CC/DC.
 
Good point.
They made a mape of the tube network showing the walking distances. Full version HERE

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Not just that. An engineer at work told me he got central line to Nottinghill, changed to district and up to Paddington. I told him get off at Lancaster Gate and 5 minute walk. It saved a change of tube and 4 stops - around 15 minutes save each way (half an hour a day!)
 
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perplexed

Guru
Location
Sheffield
Thanks all...

My debit card isn't a contactless one, so that wasn't an option unfortunately. It was more the complicated fare structure and how it applied to the card.

That aside, I tend to walk between many of the main spots in London, it's often quicker than faffing with the tube and we enjoy it anyway. It's more the getting from Stanmore to the centre, then the odd slightly further afield bits. Most of the time we're on the hoof!
 

PeteXXX

Cake or ice cream? The choice is endless ...
Location
Hamtun
You can register the card on the Oyster site and see/update/top up your balance.
I'm planning a trip in May, so will probably check balance top it up then. Thanks for the info.
My daughter used to work at the Oyster company (nearly overlooking Pitsford Res, just up the road from me) so she'll help me out!
 
Very useful indeed. Is there one which would include @0-markymark-0's Lancaster Gate to Paddington 5 mins?
No distances but google 'accurate tube map' to see where stations actually are.
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Right. Can we stop the thread. A number of us Laaandoners have been helpful and even something approaching nice (yes, me included).

This is NOT the impression we like to give.

So, you've had your info, now

....what you looking at???
 
Be very careful if you're using a contactless debit / credit card. On my last trip up to London, I was with someone who didn't have an Oyster card, and didn't buy a day travelcard. They used their contactless debit card instead. Unfortunately, somewhere between leaving Canary Wharf, and arriving at Green Park, they parted company with their contactless card. Some kind soul obviously found it, and then waxed it up to its 30 quid limit. The travelcard would only have been less than half that, and they wouldn't have had the job of trying to explain it to the bank, and had the issue of being unable to withdraw cash easily, until it was replaced.I keep my Oyster card, just for 'old times sake'. This incident has persuaded me to keep using it / topping it up for the foreseeable future.
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
Not just that. An engineer at work told me he got central line to Nottinghill, changed to district and up to Paddington. I told him get off at Lancaster Gate and 5 minute walk. It saved a change of tube and 4 stops - around 15 minutes save each way (half an hour a day!)


The best one is from Bayswater to Queensway. Take the District line to Notting hill.Change onto the central line to Queensway. Come out of the station, look across the road and you are back at Bayswater.
 
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