Underground trains generally run between 5am and midnight, Monday to Saturday, with reduced operating hours on Sunday. For more detailed traveller information on which stations to use and suggestions for the best route to reach your destination, use Transport for London's Journey Planner. Buy a Visitor Oyster card , Oyster card, Travelcard or use a contactless payment card to get the best value as cash is the most expensive way to pay.
Find more information, including how to get tickets, with this guide to Oyster cards and travelcards in London.
Check out this guide to cheap travel for more money-saving tips when travelling in London. For more details about London Tube prices, see the Transport for London website. For contactless payment cards issued outside the UK, please check for transaction fees or bank changes.
There are various discounts available for children, students , and elderly travellers on the London subway. Find out more information about London Oyster cards with these frequently asked questions.
If you plan on travelling around London to do some sightseeing and visit some of London's best attractions, why not get a London Pass and save even more money. Visitor Oyster. Devised in by Harry Beck, the London Underground map is a 20th-century design classic.
It's very useful and clearly indicates the general directions used to designate trains north, south, east or westbound , with all interchanges clearly shown. Visit this Travel Maps section to download a pdf of the London Tube map. While any seasoned Londoner will know that Covent Garden to Leicester Square is basically a stone's throw away, and that Aldgate to Aldgate East feels like spitting distance, many people new to the capital won't know that there are a few walking tricks that can get you around faster, cheaper and with fewer armpits to stand under.
Here's where you should always walk the Tube map Have sympathy for the person that queues for 15 minutes to get into Covent Garden station, waits another five for the lift and boards a packed tube to Leicester Square at rush hour, when they are only m away from one another. By tube, this faff of a journey requires two changes and four stations.
Save your time and walk it in ten minutes. Are just a three-minute walk apart, so you can aim for either station and walk the rest of the way. The two major shopping destinations are just seven minutes walk from one another. Fortunately, TfL have published a map that tells you which tube journeys are actually quicker by foot, so you can get out there in the open air, free of sweaty armpits all up in your face, and maybe even catch a cool breeze.
While some are obvious to the seasoned undergrounder — like Covent Garden to Leicester Square — there are a few that may surprise you. See also: what the Tube map looks like from a plane. These stations are m away from each other, so save yourself the money and the escalators, and walk for three minutes instead. It only takes seven minutes to get from one to the other but, as Oxford Street can be just as crowded as the tube, you may want to take the quieter route down Brook Street instead.
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.
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.
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 longer manned ticket offices at Underground and DLR stations. All tickets are dispensed by ticket machines in the ticket hall and there will be a member of staff hanging around these.
The same machines will allow you to top up your Oyster cards or see what the balance is on your Oyster card and they will also allow you to cancel your Oyster card and get your deposit and any cash left on the Oyster refunded.
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