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Old March 13th 09, 02:15 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Where to buy paper travelcard

On Mar 13, 3:05*pm, wrote:
On 13 Mar, 14:46, MIG wrote:





On Mar 13, 10:25*am, wrote:


On 13 Mar, 07:54, MIG wrote:


On Mar 13, 3:54*am, Davide Trani wrote:


I'll arrive to stansted airport and my hotel is near blackwall. I'll
stay in london for a week so i need a 7day travelcard and I'd like to
buy a paper travelcard to use 2for1 vouchers. A friend suggested me to
take national express coach to stansted, then the jubilee line to
canning town and finally dlr to blackwall. In a previous post you said
in Stratford i can only buy oyster travelcard. So where can i buy the
paper travelcard?


Thanks in advance


I think you meant "... coach to Stratford". *I was wondering if there
were any National Rail ticket machines at Stratford that would sell a
seven-day travelcard, but if not (someone will confirm) ...


It depends on the relative prices, how much you are carrying and how
many single fares you are prepared to pay before getting the
travelcard


The quickest option is probably to get a train from Stansted to
Liverpool Street, then get a paper travelcard from the National Rail
ticket office there and then get one of many trains to Stratford from
Liverpool Street (or get the DLR at Bank nearby).


The quickest option is probably to take the train from Stansted
directly to Stratford (they leave at 3 mins past the hour most of the
day, except during the peaks and early morning when you have to change
at Tottenham Hale) and buy your weekly travelcard at Stratford.
Journey time is just over an hour.


The problem is not being able to get a paper travelcard at Stratford,
if that's correct, which comes from a good authority. *Given the
frequency and stopping pattern, it's probably usually quicker to get
to Stratford via Liverpool Street anyway. *Just not convenient with
luggage.


There are National Express ticket machines which should (I'm not there
to check) sell paper 7 day travel cards. There used to be a National
Rail ticket office, but with all the works in the past years, I'm not
sure who runs all the facilities at Stratford.


I did wonder about machines, as I hinted in my first answer. I am not
sure when I last checked that any NR ticket machine sold seven-day
tickets. Probably years since I looked.

The staffed ticket offices at Stratford certainly seem to be run by
LU. There used to be no more than a bit of paper in one window to
indicate that you could get NR tickets at all.