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Stupid blasted time-out. What if I want to enjoy my journey on the Underground and take my time, or catch up on some lost sleep on the Circle line?

On the other hand, I went from Uxbridge to Hatch End via the Northwick Park to Kenton run, and it only charged me one fare. Nice.

One more silly question, the Oyster will cost me £3.00 but what is the minimum amount of credit I can then put on it

Before it's too late and I look like a thief or a fraudster, I did indeed get my free rail card from a student bank account. While I'm far from certain, I believe RBS offer it as well as NatWest.

Now, back on with the discussion...

No minimum fares on Oyster, however, I do get a little annoyed when someone asks for 10pence and then pays with a debit/credit card... rah!

So Kevin, have a heart and think of the staff when topping up

At some of the busier central London tube stations they have introduced a minimum £5 topup when using the ticket office. You can still add 10p or whatever if you use the machine.

Well just got back from a lunchtime stroll to Hatton X and that was painless enough... I got 2 Oysters

Going Underground wrote:Well just got back from a lunchtime stroll to Hatton X and that was painless enough... I got 2 Oysters

Do they have £3 credit on them?

jamesthegill wrote:

Going Underground wrote:Well just got back from a lunchtime stroll to Hatton X and that was painless enough... I got 2 Oysters

Do they have £3 credit on them?

The receipts say Oyster Card Deposit £3.00 and then I stuck £2.00 on each which says "Pre Pay" So that replaces the one that Dr Who lost and I have now joined the "Oyster set"

10p

Actually it is quite nice that they offer that. Mobile phones on pay-as-one-goes only offer a multiple-of-five-pound top up on their phone-up-and-pay-with-credit-card service. But why? Why can't you buy £4.82 of credit if you like? It's all computerised!

No, when buying oysters from the self service machines (for £3), they're creditless.
Except for the one I bought from the machine at Gloucester Road last month - it came pre-credited with 1p.

Wow! 1p, hope you didn't go mad and spend it all at once

scrxisi wrote:I was once very annoyed when I had only 89p on my Oystercard as it meant I was a penny short of being able to do anything useful with it. I proceeded to top it up with 21p that I found in my desk drawer at work, hence opening up a whole world of options to me.

True story.

I don't think any of us expected you to have made that up!

You never know... his thinking can be quite eccentric at times....

Good news - Pay as you go will be valid between Victoria and Balham (Southern) from 8 November 2009.

(According to a mailshot from Sadiq Khan http://eepurl.com/eOhE, and confirming on the fare finder.

Oyster news just in:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/ ... olution.do

And a link to a PDF:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/ ... n-2010.pdf