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Old February 21st 04, 06:12 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Steve Dulieu Steve Dulieu is offline
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Default Freedom Pass and Oyster Pre Pay?


"Sunil Sood" wrote in message
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My father's old Freedom Pass has just been renewed/replaced by a new style
'smartcard'.

Its appears to be effectively a specially designed Oyster card but none of
the documentation/notes that come with it make any reference to "Oyster"

at
all - only to the new "'smartcard' freedom pass"

As such, does anyone know if these new Freedom Passes can be loaded with

Pre
Pay? ( I haven't been able to get my hands on it yet to try loading

anything
myself!)

If it is possible to use Pre-Pay with a Freedom Pass card - it seems a
"slight" oversight not to mention it - not all journeys over 60's make is
after 9 AM.!

Also, I note that the Freedom Pass is now valid for two years (until 31st
March 2006) - am I correct in thinking that in the past they were only

valid
for one year?

AFAIK you cannot load prepay onto an Oyster Freedom Pass, I will check
tomorrow.
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Cheers, Steve.
If The Good Lord had meant for us to be fiscally prudent, He would not have
given us the platinum credit card...
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