lutonloony
Über Member
- Location
- torbay
Amazed you had never been on the underground. Obviously it's just something you've never needed to do, but just never occurred to me that people have not needed to do it
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summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Me too, though I loved Reiver's description of it, see it through your eyes. Whilst it's not somewhere I regularly go, at least I went as a child and young adult. It must be confusing for anyone's first experience of it!
I would have no idea about the using a credit card, or Oyster cards on the underground.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
[QUOTE 5053353, member: 9609"]This was wonderful advice, I would never have even considered using my card - first time I have used contactless too, still don't know how much it cost. lol
First time on the underground too - just astonishing, the amount of people, the noise, the confusion, utterly bewildering and amazing all at the same time. But it all went wonderfully well, I got very lucky I asked a lady when heading down into the tunnel if I was heading in the right direction for Walthanstow, she said follow me cause thats where I'm going, she asked where I was going in walthamstow, told me a taxi was the best plan and seen me to the taxi ranks when we got there, taxi driver had me there in 5 minutes and gave some great advice on how to get onto the M11 - Friendly helpful place London, nothing like its reputation.
Anyway, it was all very stressful and all a massive blur, but it worked out well, arrived KC, 9:40 on M11 heading North just before 11, Home by 8:45. Looking forward to empty roads and my bike the morrow (fri)[/QUOTE]
I can't remember exactly. But it's a lot cheaper than buying a single journey ticket which was your "non-contactless" option
First time on the underground too - just astonishing, the amount of people, the noise, the confusion, utterly bewildering and amazing all at the same time. But it all went wonderfully well, I got very lucky I asked a lady when heading down into the tunnel if I was heading in the right direction for Walthanstow, she said follow me cause thats where I'm going, she asked where I was going in walthamstow, told me a taxi was the best plan and seen me to the taxi ranks when we got there, taxi driver had me there in 5 minutes and gave some great advice on how to get onto the M11 - Friendly helpful place London, nothing like its reputation.
Anyway, it was all very stressful and all a massive blur, but it worked out well, arrived KC, 9:40 on M11 heading North just before 11, Home by 8:45. Looking forward to empty roads and my bike the morrow (fri)[/QUOTE]
I can't remember exactly. But it's a lot cheaper than buying a single journey ticket which was your "non-contactless" option
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Search for single journey options on tfl.gov.uk and it'll tell you AFAIK
Interesting post.
I know loads of people with printers but no ink, don't know many without a printer, but I assume there will be loads.
@User9609 description of London being friendly place is good to hear, you must have engaged with the right people.
You found the train journey and commute to Walthamstow stressful, I would have loved that bit, but found the drive back home to the Borders stressful, was you in a truck or other vehicle.?
Its being a while since I have used the tube, didn't know about the contactless option, good advice.
We don't have a ticket machine at the local station, can the guard issue them with reference number ? the train into Leeds from Pontefract gets that full you often get to Leeds without a ticket then have to queue on the station to get a ticket to exit the barriers, I suppose they could issue a ticket with the reference.
I know loads of people with printers but no ink, don't know many without a printer, but I assume there will be loads.
@User9609 description of London being friendly place is good to hear, you must have engaged with the right people.
You found the train journey and commute to Walthamstow stressful, I would have loved that bit, but found the drive back home to the Borders stressful, was you in a truck or other vehicle.?
Its being a while since I have used the tube, didn't know about the contactless option, good advice.
We don't have a ticket machine at the local station, can the guard issue them with reference number ? the train into Leeds from Pontefract gets that full you often get to Leeds without a ticket then have to queue on the station to get a ticket to exit the barriers, I suppose they could issue a ticket with the reference.
jefmcg
Guru
And indeed, despite having to nominate a station to collect, you can collect from any station.
Yup that too.
I have to collect a ticket for Jnr every friday. I decided to try to collect at a different station to the one that I had nominated on the web site, lo and behold it coughed up the ticket.
jefmcg
Guru
It worked out happily for me the time I caught the first train, before the station was manned, and all the ticket machines were in the locked part of the station. Fortunately I was able to pick up the ticket at the interchange station.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
For you. I've been refused at the ticket office at Weston-super-Mare and told I must use the often-broken machines but that was years ago, in the FGW era. But I've also had tickets booked by Co-operatives UK HQ which I could only collect from a staffed ticket office and not from the machines. Maybe one of the simplifications stopped this absurdity and you can now collect either from either.
jefmcg
Guru
I've had tremendous trouble picking up a cycle reservation a few months. Got the train ticket itself no problem, but got an error trying the number I'd been given for the reservation. Note: it was a separate ticket completed by a different team. After trying at a different, manned station I called Virgin, confirmed the number. They then gave me a second number I could give at the ticket office. He spent several minutes including a long phone call, but couldn't print the reservation either. He did print an email that indicated the reservation existed so I set off on my journey reasonably confident I'd be able to get my bike home again. Finally at Edinburgh station I tried 3 different machines, and got 3 different transient errors. Finally a ticket seller was able - in just a few minutes! - to print out my reservation for me.
