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Search on entire page:. Sign in. You are not signed in Accessibility tools My account. Buy tickets Your tickets Stations and destinations Travel information Travelling with us Help and support. Home Travel information Travel connections London transport connections. London Transport Connections. You can buy this with your train ticket — choose between Peak and Off-Peak. Find out more on the Transport for London TfL website. Ask our staff if you need directions. Oyster cards and contactless payment This plastic smartcard from TfL is a really easy way to pay for your travel around London.
You can add Travelcards and Bus and Tram season tickets or simply pay as you go. Find out more about our London services. Travel safely. Find out more. Buy train tickets to any destination in Britain — no booking fee. London calling Add Tube tickets or Travelcards to your ticket. What are the advantages? Plan and book your entire journey in advance Save time and stress when you get to the big smoke. Contactless cards are standard credit or debit cards that support the contactless payment technology, the total cost of all the journeys that you make in one day is calculated at the end of the day and a single charge is made to your Contactless payment card account.
Unlike the Oyster card the contactless facility has a 7-day cap as well as the Oyster daily cap used by Oyster. You can use Oyster cards on all of London's public transport, not just the Underground, but buses, overground, DLR, suburban rail services and some river services. Travelcards are another alternatives. Travelcards are valid on the same modes of transport but are unlimited travel passes for a fixed flat fee. Travelcards are available for 1 and 7 days, 1 month and 1 year durations.
You can purchase and subsequently top up Oyster cards and Travelcards from Underground stations and a wide variety of other outlets throughout London including neighbourhood stores, but not Contactless payment cards. 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 on to a standard Oyster card note, not a Visitor Oyster card at an Underground station after showing your Seniors Card.
If you have a Senior Railcard you can also buy a 1 day off-peak zone Travelcard at the discount applied. This is a very complex subject and is covered in detail in the table below. Generally, 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 Warner Bros Studio Tour London - the Making of Harry Potter.
You do not need a ticket for free travel, just the ID Card. If you are a short-term visitor to London you can get child fares on a special child Oyster card that expires after 14 days. There are restrictions. For full details of this scheme click through on the Child Fares banner to the right. You can buy 7 day child Travelcards at railway stations not Underground or Overground with a railway ticket office.
The railways will issue a railways photocard free of charge if you bring along a passport size photo of your child. 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. You do not need a ticket for free travel, just the ID Card.
If you are a short-term visitor to London you can get child fares on a special child Oyster card that expires after 14 days. There are restrictions. For full details of this scheme click through on the Child Fares banner, below. You can buy 7 day child Travelcards at railway stations not Underground or Overground with a railway ticket office.
The railways will issue a railways photocard free of charge if you bring along a passport size photo of your child. You can only use this for buying tickets from the railways which in practise for visitors means Travelcards. However, you can only use this concession on Oyster cards and 7 Day Travelcards or longer, not 1 day Travelcards.
Visitors to London from overseas can order an Oyster Photocard in advance for their children and collect on arrival at a travel centre. Where can I use an Oyster Card? What is a Visitor Oyster Card?
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