Oyster Card

Indy500 · 19 Apr 2008 at 12:49

CDj-Rossi said:
WOW, all this over £3. You must be skint. I'd just pay the £3 and save the messing around of getting an Oyster card and having to top it up. The Oyster Card also sounds extremely homosexual.

It is a bit much for 2-3 stops though..

Mad old tory · 19 Apr 2008 at 13:32

sr4470 said:
It is a bit much for 2-3 stops though..

Maybe but if Fox even occasionally travels to London, which he says hes does, it will soon pay for itself. Are you driving up and then getting the tube? If not, why not just tack a travelcard onto your railticket?

Mad old tory · 19 Apr 2008 at 13:38

electric ant said:
You can literraly pick up an oyster card at your first stop, pay £3 deposit +£1.50 far (if zone1-2), then at your destination stop just hand back the oyster card and claim your £3 deposit back.

Secret tip: If you have a Young Persons Railcard you can save quite a bit on your fares (up to 34%)
Just ask at the counter if they can put on the railcard discount , show them your railcard and theyll swipe the Oyster and you get you discounts.

More info here

Nice one! Just to clarify though, you pay full fares but the cap is 34% lower so the most you'll pay in a day in zones1-2 is £3.10 off-peak.

dowie · 19 Apr 2008 at 14:02

The oyster card is free - the £3 is just a deposit

Getting one is the best solution regardless of whether you're just down for the weekend, couple of times a year or actually live in London.

electric ant · 19 Apr 2008 at 15:07

Mad old tory said:
Nice one! Just to clarify though, you pay full fares but the cap is 34% lower so the most you'll pay in a day in zones1-2 is £3.10 off-peak.

yeah exactly right, the discount applies when you hit enough journeys for a travel card, so in 3 journeys you ll have reached that.

Incase the person at the counter doesnt know about the YP railcard discount, its in the Fares booklet leaflet, somewhere near the back (cant remebr tha page number exactly). They will do soemhting on the computer and swipe your Oyster , and it gets loaded with the discount details.

peetee · 20 Apr 2008 at 01:22

:O I can take my YP railcard to the counter when im there next and it gets me cheaper oyster travel?

[TW]Fox · 20 Apr 2008 at 01:41

Mad old tory said:
Are you driving up and then getting the tube? If not, why not just tack a travelcard onto your railticket?

I've booked an advance purchase First Class single which unfortunately you can't tack a railcard onto

I'm not 'skint' but if you look after the pennies the pounds look after themselves

It just seemed daft to spend 200% more, especially if getting an Oyster was a useful idea anyway.

ironman · 20 Apr 2008 at 01:49

Feek said:
Nice, we have a blatant fare dodger in our midst.

Pretty much all of the student population in London dodge fairs.......

ErNciLator · 20 Apr 2008 at 12:15

it's £3 then you get back the £3 when you take it back

Mad old tory · 20 Apr 2008 at 12:27

[TW]Fox;11532644 said:
I've booked an advance purchase First Class single which unfortunately you can't tack a railcard onto

I'm not 'skint' but if you look after the pennies the pounds look after themselves It just seemed daft to spend 200% more, especially if getting an Oyster was a useful idea anyway.

Tbh even if it didn't save you any money it would still have been worthwhile it's a lot more convenient to just tap the card down than have to faff about putting the ticket in the reader etc. Paper tickets can get scrunched pretty easily as well meaning you have to go to the gate everytime as the readers are quite temperamental.

electric ant · 20 Apr 2008 at 14:26

peetee said:
:O I can take my YP railcard to the counter when im there next and it gets me cheaper oyster travel?

Yep

peetee · 20 Apr 2008 at 15:34

Feek said:
Nice, we have a blatant fare dodger in our midst.

iv been once in a decade and if you read the thread you would see that i did infact load 2 oysters for myself and my gf with £10, and used approximately that over the weekend.

Nice we have someone who reads a few posts in a thread and talks rubbish.
And its generally expect that students dodge fairs everywhere, just like they pirate computer software etc, as they will grow up using it and will have to fork out for it eventually.