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I've seen that this forum recommends that I buy a ' 7-day travel card for zones 1/2 , which is placed on an oyster card....do I need 2 passport photos or just one photo ?

We plan to travel to Windsor on our own from Waterloo train station....will this need to be included on the card above or should we buy that ticket separately ? Would a zone 1/6 include that ? We're also looking at going to Hampton .

Thanks for your comments... Rob

If you have your travelcard on an Oystercard, you don't need photographs.

If you want to get a travelcard to take advantage of 2for1 offers, you don't get it on an Oystercard, you go to a national rail station; and for that version, you do need a photocard each.

For Windsor and Hampton Court, you might as well get the separate train ticket all the way. Windsor is outside the London travelcard zones anyway, and for Hampton Court, the saving from just getting an add-on for zone 6 is probably not worth the hassle.

Well, someone has clearly not understood what he read.

You don't need a photo with an oyster card. You also don't get a discount on the 2for1 offers. And the London Transport website is clear that Windsor is not covered in any of the numbered zones, so whatever you're on about there comes from a misread.

You asked about "we" and that means there's more than one of you in the group.

Do this:

(1) Go to www.daysoutguide.co.uk and check out the 2for1 offers. Print out every voucher of interest.

(2) Bring passport-size headshots of yourself and the other half of "we" to London.

(3) Go to the nearest National Rail station to your temporary abode and buy a seven-day Travelcard for zones 1-2 from the NATIONAL RAIL ticket office, not the Underground ticket office. The National Rail ticket office will be on the same level as the omnipresent Boots and M&S Simply Food stores. You'll get an orange-ish flimsy paper card.

(4) Present said card and the appropriate voucher at sites that participate in the 2for1 deals. These include the Tower, the War Rooms and Hampton Court Palace. Your savings for those three will be around (or over) 50 quid - that's nearly $85.

(5) Send me 10% of your savings by Paypal.

#5 is optional but highly encouraged.

I thought I had read somewhere (maybe even these forums?) that you no longer need the photo for the 7-day travel card? Info on the paper 7-day travel card is a bit sparse on the TFL website, but I did find this:

http://visitorshop.tfl.gov.uk/SiteDa...20Nov%2013.pdf

Can anyone confirm if one still needs the passport photo?

You need a photo for a 7 day or longer Travelcard bought at a NATIONAL RAIL station.

Transport for London is not part of the National Rail system and any Oystercard bought from them does not need a photocard - unless it's a Zipcard for a child

griz_fan: That link is re <u>TFL</u> travelvcards loaded on <i>Oysters</i>.

The <u>National Rail</u> 7 day travel card is an entirely different animal (that gets you the same travel benefits as the TFL one on an Oyster). Paper travel cards have nothing to do really w/ TFL except that they are good on the tube and buses. Therefore purchase/requirements info on the TFL website doesn't apply to them.

Yes - you DO need a photo for the <u>paper</u> travel cards.

Thanks for the info, and I'm glad I checked. For the 7 day paper travel card, how do I determine cost? Is the cost the same as the TFL cards?