I Want To Go On The London Underground But Don’t Have Any Oysters, What Can I Do?
I really want to travel on the underground but someone said you pay with Oysters and have to carry a “Tube” around with you too. I thought England’s currency was the “pound” so am confused. How many oysters should I take with me on the London Underground? 3 oysters a ride?
Wow you sound very confused, so let’s get everything straight first.
- The “pound” is the currency of the UK. The ‘£’ sign means pounds.
- 50p is half of a “pound”. Shown like this £0.50p
- “Tube” is just slang for the Underground, because the tunnels the trains travel through are tubes.
- Oyster cards are a seperate option to paper tickets.
- You only need one Oyster card.
- Oyster cards are not compulsory, they just give cheap travel.
Okay, so heres we go. When you arrive at the Tube station, you can either go to a ticket machine and pay £4 for a paper ticket, which will give you one single journey from that station to another. If you want more than one journey on the Underground, buy a day Travelcard. This will give you unlimited journeys within in set zones. Travelcards start at £5.60 for zone1&2. Zones are shown on the Tube Map (see below).
Oyster cards are different. You can buy one from any Tube manned ticket office for £3. You then load money onto the card abit like a giftcard, and its ready to use. You then approach the ticket gates, and swipe the Oyster on one of the card readers. When you arrive at your destination, swipe out again. Oyster single journeys cost £1.60 – £2.20 unlike the paper single journey which costs £4. Oyster is just an effective way of saving you money. You can also use the Oyster as a Travelcard; just make as many journeys as you want, and it will deduct £1.60 upto £5.10, when it stops (this is called Price Capping). Oyster Travelcards are 50p cheaper than the paper version.
When your going home, you can get your £3 back if you ask for a Oyster refund. They will also refund anything left on the card.
See the links for more help.
I think someone was winding you up, either that you weren’t listening properly or you’re a troll
The tube is the nickname for the Underground in London
An Oyster is a pre-pay card, you don’t have to get an Oyster card, you can buy paper tickets but an Oyster is cheaper then paying for paper tickets
You can an Oyster at any underground station or certain designated newsagents and shops. The Oyster card costs 3 pounds which is refundable & then it’s up to how much you put on to the card.
This link lays out quite clearly information about the Underground, what Oyster cards are & how to use them http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Travel/Tran…
This is a link to the Transport for London website with information on the Oysterhttp://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/oysteronli…
a common nick name for the Underground is “the tube”
a Prepaid card is called the oyster card for london transporthttps://oyster.tfl.gov.uk/oyster/entry.d…
You don’t have to pay with an Oyster card. You can get a ticket using the “pound”. And “Tube” = London Underground.
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incase this is a serious question though:
you can buy an all day travel card at any station….zones 1-4
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You can buy a train ticket, which will permit you travel anywhere you want.
Clams also work…
get your bike…. and ride it along the track.
if you wanna get down, down on the ground……
pop down to the beach at Whitstable … a whole mountain of oyster shells free to pick up