London Zone Map
The London 'Travelcard'is a network-wide ticket that allows unlimited travel on the public transport network. It is valid on all London buses, trains, trams and the underground (subway) services. It is made up of concentric zones radiating from the centre of London Zone 1. Each zone represents a 2. 5 mile radius around a major railway station or Underground line intersection. Travelcards are available for single or return journeys within any zone or combination of zones for a given day/days from £8.
40, South Greenwich Forum (southgreenwichforum.co.uk). ". Clicking on a station will show the zone for that station and will highlight it in either grey (not zone) or white (within zone). There are some extra bits of information that you can see by clicking on the info button. The number of trains, the address of the station, the next train coming and when it is due at your destination. London’s Transport network is split up into concentric zones — Zone 1 being the centre of London.
The further out you get, the lower the zone you’re in and the cheaper tickets cost. Below is a map of all of the London Zones showing the tube lines that cover them. London zone map. You can see the zone on the tube map. The zones are marked in either white or grey. Scroll around or type in a station name in the search box to see the zone. Good to know where you are.
What London Transport Zones Do I Need?
London transport zones A-Z: London Underground and rail zones. Here you can find all the underground and rail stations inLondon, England. This article describes the 12 Transport for London (TfL) zones for trains, buses and trams. All zone 1 tickets cover travel in these zones Map of London: Districts and travel zones. The map shows the 19 districts of Greater London in colour on a geographical background map together with the eleven travel zones and relevant fares.
The individual travel zones are also shown on the main tube maps without district numbers. If you’re moving to or visiting London soon, you'll be wondering what the best transport zones are to live in. Whether you want to find the closest underground or train station to your accommodation, or work out what zones you need for a specific journey, this comprehensive tube guide will help you out. No matter where you're based in London, I can show you exactly how far away from underground or train stations you are and how many zones it will take to get there.
London’s public transport system is made up of a network of underground trains, buses and trams. The public transport zones also form a hierarchy, with the zones closest to the centre being more expensive than those further out. Some rail services are only available to certain zones. This post will help you navigate through each London transport zone. Tube zones and London transport fares are a nightmare, so we’ve simplified it for you. What London transport zones do I need? A zone 1-6 map to give you an idea of where your station will fall.
Then you can easily find the nearest tube or train station, as well as the cheapest fares using our Zone Finder. You can check the zones online usingthe Transport for London website, then compare with our map below to calculate how much youll need to pay for a ticket. This map shows the London zones. I found it helpful when I got a new Oyster card, but don’t know how it would be otherwise. Each of these will be explained in a little more detail below.
Stations In Two Zones
There are 45 stations on the border of two zones: Acton Town, Chalfont & Latimer, Chesham, Colindale, Cockfosters, Epping, Finsbury Park, Hainault, Hammersmith (subway), Harold Wood, Heathrow Terminal 4 & Terminals 1 2 3 (you can change between all these trains at Heathrow Central), High Barnet & Oakleigh Park, Ickenham & South Harrow, Iver, Kensington (Olympia), Kentish Town West, Kew Gardens, North Wembley, Northfields, Pinner & Hatch End, Richmond (not Richmond-upon-Thames), Ruislip Manor, South Woodford (subway),.
If you want to buy two tickets for a longer journey, but use the ticket at separate places, it might work out cheaper to buy two singles. These can be from the same or different zones. So if you were travelling from Croydon to Streatham (zone 3) and then to Hither Green (zone 4), you could buy two Zone 3 single tickets or one Zone 4 single with a Zone 3 section. The Zone 3-4 single is more expensive, but could be cheaper when there are two stages to your journey.
On your journey from your starting zone to your destination, you will be crossing zone borders and traveling through stations in two zones. If you are traveling from zone 2 to zone 1, for example, you'll pass through a station that's in both zones (zone 2 North Acton). There are two types of zone 1 stations: narrow zone 1 (includes the Circle, District, Metropolitan and City & South London Rapid Transit Company's sub-surface lines) and wide zone 1 (includes DLR).
Stations in two zones. Some stations are on the border of two zones. These stations have a white box around their name on the tube map. Tickets to these stations are slightly different. You can tell whether a station is in multiple zones by the colour of the box around its name. This colour tells you in which zone the station lies. There are two cases when you may need to travel outside your normal zones on a weekly or monthly Travelcard.
How To Save Money On Travel To Central London From Zones 2-6
I’ve been living in Stoke Newington, North London for the past few weeks. It’s a good area, but the one downside is that it’s not right on the tube map (Zone 2). This means I’ve had to fork out extra cash for Zones 1 and 2 on top of my Zones 3-6 Travelcard. However, there are other ways to get around central London that are totally free – if you don't mind walking. I know you may be thinking “But Nick, I’m not planning on using the buses, but the Tube.
” – well actually you can catch the bus from London Bridge to Holborn stations and jump onto the Central Line for free ( an interesting hack I will blog about in the future ). The Travelcard is good for unlimited use of this route. Once upon a time, someone told me you could travel around London on the buses for free if you were willing to buy a Travelcard. "No", I said, "that's crazy talk".
Then I went and checked the prices of some of the zones that I needed to cover, and realised that it was indeed true. Travel to central London from any of the zones listed above is not cheap even when you have a Travelcard. The following is a chart of some zone 1-9 fares from the Oyster card website and my own experience in purchasing an off-peak single on the buses. There are many different options when it comes to travelling to central London from the outskirts of zones 2-6.
Weekly Or Monthly Travelcards
You live in zone 1 and want to visit a friend who lives in zone 3. The fare for this journey is £4. 70. However, a Travelcard for zones 1-2 costs £7. 00, or £5. 10 if you buy it as a weekly travelcard, and £3. 40 if you buy it as a monthly travelcard. Instead of paying a full-price single journey ticket every time you visit your friend — as well as paying for an additional weekly or monthly Travelcard — you can use a multi-journey ticket for all the journeys in between topurchasing a weekly/monthly Travelcard.
If there are only two journeys more than two zones, buying an Oyster single journey ticket would. So you have a Travelcard that covers zones 2 to 3. In the morning you live in zone 1, in the afternoon you leave from zone 2 and visit a friend in zone 3. If you do not buy another travelcard for that trip, then when you leave your friend at 6pm you will need to buy a new ticket as it is now zone 4.
If you want travel 5 zones-covering Brentford to Kentish Town, you should buy Zones 1 4 which covers all those zones. And it's the same thing with monthly Travelcard, if your usual monthly final destination is Zone 1 only, then you buy a monthly Travelcard covering Zones 1 2. If you want to travel from Liverpool Street Station to Heathrow, you need a Travelcard that covers zones 1-6. But if you want to travel from Liverpool Street Station to Richmond, you need a Travelcard that covers zones 1-5.
You want to buy a weekly Travelcard for zones 1-4. You live in zone 3 and want to travel from zones 1 to 3 and 4 to 6. You therefore need a Travelcard for zones 1-3 and 4-6. 1 Travelcard Zone 2: you will need a Travelcard Zone 1 and a Travelcard Zone 2. Similarly, if you want to visit zones 1,2,3,4 you need the following 3 Travelcards. This is where we want to save money if possible, as we all know how expensive it can be.
Pay As You Go Oyster Card
If the reader has already had some experience with Oyster then this would be the best place to start. There will already be some knowledge of how Oyster cards work and that it runs out of money if you don't top it up, but they probably don't know about the new pay as you go option. There are some opening questions that can confirm this as an known technique to the reader, such as "Some readers aren't familiar with the new pay as you go option.
" or "Oyster cards use plastic cartridges which run out of money if they aren't topped up. Would those readers who have not used them before like a breakdown of how it works?". This will also help transition into what is being blogged about and. If you want to find the bus route number from A to Z lower down the page, on the right hand side of the bus stop map and timetable, there is a box where you select the first letter of the bus stop you are looking for.
Then above this, there is a drop down box where you can select the first letter of the bus stop from where you are travelling from (eg if you are travelling from zone 1 Westminster to zone 3 Gloucester Road, select Z then G). A quick disclaimer though–(1) THE SOUTHERN LINE DOES NOT STOP AT HAMMERSMITH AND CITY; (2) THE N30 NIGHT BUS DOES NOT STAY ON REGENT STREET; (3) IF YOU ARE TRA. If you use a Pay as you go Oyster card, you can add just enough money to either pay for a single journey for the zones that you travel through or add enough money to cover the cost of the daily cap if you want unlimited travel for the day.
If you travel frequently in the same zones, sign up for the Travelcard season ticket or week ticket. If you spend most of your time at work and home in the same zone, there could be a considerable discount compared with pay as you go. A Pay as you go Oyster card is an Oyster card where there is no season ticket loaded on it. The advantage of an oyster card is that if you travel 10 times a day, every day, the overall cost will be cheaper than a Contactless payment.
Travelcards On An Oyster Card
Your Oyster card is a fantastic way of getting around London at a discounted rate. Once you know your options, it is a flexible and simple way to travel in London. Most people who have used their card outside London only know how to use the Travelcard option. A Travelcard gives you cheap and unlimited travel in certain zones on the tube, buses and rail (when topped up with Pay as you go money). If you are visiting a zone that isn't covered by your current Travelcard, topping up your Oyster card with Pay as you go money will allow you to travel between the zones for a small additional fee.
This post covers how to do this using the Oyster card app or website but if your using a paper ticket remember that. My university is based in Acton, west London, and I usually visit friends in Battersea or Camberwell on the weekend. These locations are outside of my zone 2 Travelcard. In order to do this I went to www. tfl. gov. uk, logged into my Oyster account and topped up £5 in Pay as you go money.
Then when I travel from Acton station to Battersea (zone 3) or Wandsworth road (zone 3) on the underground using my Oyster card I pay no extra charge to travel outside of my zone 2 Travelcard. ","como-podemos-fortalecer-nuestra-cierre-de-criptografia---","campaign. Simply tap your Oyster card on the yellow reader while travelling on a non-TfL public service vehicle. The cost of the journey outside your zones will be deducted from the Pay as you go money you added to your card.
This means you can get as many free journeys as you want outside your zones, whenever you want, without needing to buy additional Travelcards. You can also take advantage of this by getting a weekly Travelcard for zones 1-6 or 0, and top up the rest of your fare with Pay as you go money. The zones don't need to be consecutive either, as long as the journey covers at most two zones. So if you have a weekly Travelcard for zones 6-1 but want to travel between 2 and 3, top up zone 3.
". If you already have a weekly Travelcard for a particular zone and want to visit somewhere outside this zone, top-up your Oyster card with some Pay as you go money to cover the cost of travelling between the last zone on your Travelcard and the place you is. Pay as you go Oyster cards not only offer a way of saving up to 40% on fares, they also make it quicker and more convenient to get around London.
Paper Travelcards
There are several machines located at each tube station and they accept both notes and coins. They'll print an extension ticket for you that's valid until 04. 00 the following morning. The extension ticket works interchangeably on all London Transport public transport, including the night buses, DLR, Tfl Rail and Overground trains. The paper version of the Travelcard only allows you to travel by bus, tube, DLR, London Overground and certain National Rail services within the zones indicated on the card.
If you're travelling beyond those boundaries, you need to buy a separate extension ticket. Paper versions of the Travelcard will only get you so far. If your journey from a station is longer than the ticket you're holding, then you'll need to buy an extension ticket from the underground station machine. If you have a paper Travelcard, make sure you upgrade it to a photocard Travelcard from your nearest London Underground Station. Otherwise, you may not be able to use it on the bus at the end of your trip.
Travelcards have a note on the back telling you not to use it in the buses or tubes. I also had an awkward accidental encounter with someone who tells his wife he is just staying in his car for few hours. If you have a paper Travelcard, you need to buy an extension ticket from the underground station ticket machine. Usually, Travelcards are only valid for journeys made within the zones printed on the card.