London Underground Ticket Question

dick_turpin

I need to travel across London by tube next week with my DD. Arriving in London Kings Cross late afternoon. If I buy a tube ticket to our final destination, can I break the journey across London (to sightsee) and then complete the journey on the same ticket?
Thank you

bikebarbie

If you buy a ticket from A to Z you cant get off and on again at other stations in between. When you exit the Tube you need to put the ticked in the exit barrier, it will retain it, so you will be left with no ticket.

It's more convenient buy few pences to buy a travel card, which allows you as many journeys within the zones included, mainly in tubes and buses in London.

dick_turpin

Thanks you for that.
So, if DD and I need to go from Kings x to Clapham Junc one day, and make the return journey the next day..Do we Oyster? Travelcard? individual ticket? Help please (DD is seventeen).

newfoundglory

Use an Oystercard with pay as you go on it. That way, you can jump on and off trains and buses when you like, and it will stop deducting money from the card when it reaches the cost of a 1-day travel card for the zones you have used.

dzug1

DD is an adult for London ticketing purposes

Oyster will be the cheapest way of doing it - but there will be a £5 refundable deposit on each card.

yorkie2

Where is your origin; do you already have tickets to King's Cross, and if so what is the ticket type?

Are you likely to make any further journeys in London at a later date?

Do you hold any discount cards (e.g. your daughter may hold a 16-25 Railcard)?

dick_turpin

We already have tickets from York.
This is a one-off trip for possible further education for DD.

w211

I heard somewhere (can't remember), that you can make a break in your journey, though you have to ask someone at the barriers before you exit if you can do so, so they can give amend your ticket.

_demon

You can't break a journey on a single tube ticket. You could get off the mainline train at Kings Cross and wander round from there or get the tube to, say, Charing Cross, and then wander round and walk across to Waterloo and take a mainline train to Clapham Junction (tube doesn't go to Clapham Junction). You should be able to get a through ticket from York to CJ including a single tube journey.

dzug1

w211 wrote: »

I heard somewhere (can't remember), that you can make a break in your journey, though you have to ask someone at the barriers before you exit if you can do so, so they can give amend your ticket.

Not with a tube ticket - just rail ones and then not every kind

opinions4u

Oyster sounds like the solution here. Get one each.

If either of you hold a railcard, then a Travelcard will work out about 25% cheaper than Oyster though.

One problem I found with buying a discounted Travelcard on a Saturday morning - heaving queue of daytrippers!

One problem I found with buying a discounted Travelcard on a Sunday morning - no staff at the tube station. I assume this isn't the same everywhere.