When you use your card by tapping in and out at the ticket barriers , the cost of travel is deducted from your Oyster card balance. Paper weekly or monthly Travelcards are still available from some London train stations.
You can also add some money to your Oyster card if you have a Weekly or Monthly Travelcard. This is useful if you need to travel outside your weekly Travelcard zone. Are you visiting London? The PAYG Oyster card is the cheapest and most flexible way to pay for travel, especially if your visit to London is between 1—5 days. You then add money to the card to pay for your travel. The Pay as you go Oyster card is the cheapest way to pay for single tickets on the underground.
If you use your Pay as you go Oyster card only few times a day, the price you pay for each single journey depends on the time of day you travel. Monday—Friday 6. If you travel into central London zone 1 from an outer zone, there is no afternoon peak rate. This is the maximum amount deducted from your card for travel in one day.
From Monday 27 September , your Oyster card will automatically cap at the weekly Travelcard fare this is already available on a contactless cards. The cap starts on Monday and ends Sunday, so it mainly benefits Londoners or those working in London. 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. A child is defined as under 16 years old, but in the last couple of years it has been possible to get child fares after jumping through a few hoops up to the age of If a child is between 11 and 15 years old you require an Oyster Photocard which has a fee see below.
This allows 11 to 15 year olds to travel at child fares on the Underground, DLR, Overground and some trains, free on the buses. If you are a short term visitor in London for up to 14 days with kids between you can take advantage of the Young Visitor Discount.
This means you can get half price fares on an Oyster Card on a temporary basis for your child without going through the hoops and expense of getting an Oyster ID card. You do need to read carefully the rules of this scheme though. Children under five can travel free at any time on the Tube, DLR, buses and trams as long as they are accompanied by an adult with a valid ticket. You do not need a ticket for free travel. They can also travel free at any time on the Tube, DLR , Overground and any TfL train service when they are travelling with an adult who has a valid ticket.
Up to 4 children under 11 years old accompanied by a paying adult travel free. Travel on the national railways which operate suburban commuter trains in London only have free travel for those under 5. In the last year or so many train routes in London have switched from the railways to TfL Rail. Confusingly a few national railways routes where both rail and TfL rail operate on the same tracks children under 11 can travel free on the railways trains - this includes the popular route for visitors between Euston and Watford Junction for Harry Potter Studio Tour.
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