Using pay as you go with an Oyster card on the train is simple. Just touch in on the yellow card reader at the start of your journey and touch out at the end. The correct fare is automatically deducted from your card.
Top up your balance at any self-service ticket machine at our stations within the London zonal area, as well as stations between Merstham and Gatwick Airport and Epsom. You can top up at a ticket machine, at a newsagent, the TfL Oyster and contactless app, or at tfl.
From 29 March, Oyster cards will no longer be available at Essex Road station. Discover how you can travel paperless on our trains with the Key Smartcard, eTickets or with Contactless instead. These extensions allow you to use either a contactless card, mobile device or an Oyster card to pay for travel. As Oyster PAYG is based on single fares, there are occasions when Oyster may not be the cheapest option for your combination of journeys.
Very helpful, thanks. Indeed not having to tap out and in again at Clapham Junction using different cards is well worth an extra 20p! The extension fares you refer to are a bit of a mystery to me as it sounds like they are more expensive than the single fares to Redhill in some cases?
Are they published anywhere? They will be published on here once I finally get my head around everything. There are lots of things about fares between Merstham and Gatwick Airport which are not quite right or logical. It is certainly linked to the lack of space on the existing card-centric Oyster card system.
I hope that many of the anomalies will be corrected when Oyster moves to the back-office system that contactless already uses. Mike, My lad and i are covering thw whole of the network shown on the London Connections map. Now Gatwick is on this, We intend getting a Zone Travelcard our start station is Feltham to East Croydon Touch in using our Oyster to do Gatwick touch out and in return to East Crodon and touch out with the Oyster, then carry on using the Travelcard. The latter is the same price as Oyster but there would be no need to exit and re-enter at Gatwick, nor at East Croydon if you purchase it in advance at Feltham.
Hi, I am planning on travelling from Gatwick airport to Tottenham Hale. Can I now use my Oyster card for this and if so any idea how much it will be? Also is this the best route? Yes you can use your Oyster card. Make sure that the train you catch from Gatwick is not non-stop to Victoria. Trains which call at East Croydon and Clapham Junction as well only take minutes longer. What zone 3 station did you start from. Sadly the brain-damaged way these fares have been set up means that anomalies like this can easily occur.
The fare applied is correct. I would also like to advise that your National Rail discount will only apply during off peak journeys, giving you a third off. That is a long standing oddity with the way that fares are calculated for the whole journey before allowing for any travelcard. The bigger issue here is that there is no simple zone 4 — Merstham journey involving LU and NR to compare with.
I was rather surprised to find that a much higher fare applied. As I found out from my travels, the bus and tram cap is still applied separately. The bus and tram cap will always be applied separately if you make more than 3 such journeys, but it still counts towards whatever rail cap is going to be applied. Remember that journeys started between and will charge off-peak fares but not count towards the off-peak cap.
We have just passed the 16 May fare revision date used by the Railways if not by TfL. So, I think my question is whether Merstham to Gatwick are being treated differently to Watford Junction, Grays, Cheshunt, Shenfield etc which are not in the zones? Do you know whether peak fares from those locations are charged at zone plus extension or using their own peak caps? Did you receive an email from me? It should be whatever combination of caps and extension fares works out cheapest.
That may or may not involve zones all the time. AFAI can see, if we take the Gatwick Express there is very little point as the discount on a single ticket is a derisory 10p. Am I missing something? The point of extending Oyster to Gatwick was convenience rather than value for money.
Gatwick to Victoria using most of the other services only takes around minutes longer but costs a lot less. I know Oyster cards are now accepted on this journey, would this be the cheapest option or would a weekly or monthly work out cheaper?
Thank you! The cheapest option I can see is a Salfords to Zones travelcard season. At East Croydon you get off and use the tram to Wimbledon. You can buy seasons for a week or any period between a month and a year.
A monthly is cheaper than 4 weeklies. All off peak hours. Planing to use Oyster. Am just wondering if it will make sense to break this bit at East Croydon. It could make sense to split both Gatwick journeys at East Croydon if using contactless, but only if the evening journey might be after by the time you touch back in at East Croydon. However, as you already said many times, it is a mess working out the fares using Oyster pay-as-you-go. I hope your answer will enlighten many visitors to your useful website.
Regards and many thanks. In general the extension fares will be the price of a single from the next zone to where you are going. In your case this will be a zone 6 station. You do need to take account of your whole journey because that can change the fare. In both cases you would only be paying for the Underground beyond Hatton Cross, but it matters where you have come from. As for Gatwick, it is a mess. I hope to be able to provide more comprehensive advice in the future.
On the Oyster website, it said something about by using Oyster, I would get the guaranteed lowest fare. The lowest fare guarantee really only applies to zones Finally, I wholeheartedly agree about the Gatwick extension being very confusing. Thank you for a great website! I see from your comments above that the Gatwick fares do seem rather a big old mess, so I was wondering if you are able to explain these two single fare off peak queries:.
Why does it cost more to join en route at Redhill? Why is the fare double when both stations are in Zone 2 and Wandsworth Town is just one stop further? Ask GTR. We are staying in a hotel in zone 2. Just trying to work out the cheapest way to go about it? Sorry for the delay responding. The family and friends railcard is not a travel ticket itself, it just gives you discounts on paper tickets.
Whilst it would be worthwhile for the journey from Gatwick to Victoria and back at the end? So I would buy one for the Airport trips and use Oyster while in London. The year-old should have their own Oyster which you can get discounted to half rate fares. Now the slightly controversial bit. The Gatwick Express usually takes 30 minutes to run non-stop from Gatwick to Victoria.
There are Southern trains which take minutes for the same journey but they stop at East Croydon and Clapham Junction on the way. I leave it up to you whether the extra is worth it for less than 5 minutes time saving. It will be interesting to see what they do when Southern trains use Gatwick platforms 5 or 6 which they currently do through the day.
I have an annual travelcard zones and no credit on the Oyster. How would this work travelling from Victoria on a non-Gatwick Express service? Will it just not work at the Gatwick barriers or will I be left with a negative balance, to be claimed when I renew my season ticket? As this will then be negative the travelcard will cease to work until you top up again. There is also the possibility that you may be checked by an inspector once you have passed the last stop within the zones at which point you may be liable to a penalty fare or even prosecution.
I strongly advise you to add enough credit single from East Croydon to Gatwick before you start. I am arriving at Gatwick on a plane from the US on August 10 at 1. I cannot seem to work out what the price would be if I were to use my standard, not a visitors Oyster card. Can you help? How can they charge me for travel on the tube when I have not told them I want to take it?
What if I just lived at Victoria? As it turns out, I do want to use the tube, because I need to end up at Oxford Circus. Also, can you break it down for me, Mike? And would I be guaranteed this price if I just show up and use my Oyster card on any train other than Gatwick Express, of course or do I somehow need to book in advance? It would be nice if so, as I would not then need to worry about my flight arriving late. The issue is that there are two stations at Victoria and the fare depends on which one you arrive at.
The only difference would be if you touched in at Gatwick between on a weekday as then the peak fares would be charged. I cannot see how this can be true if what you are saying is correct. The cheapest fare currently visible on the trainline. You need to remember that TfL have been badly stung by Southern over Gatwick pricing. In many cases it is cheaper to get a paper ticket.
One of the cases where Oyster usually ends up cheaper is single journeys, which looks like your case. Southern and Thameslink are both run by Govia Thameslink Railway, but only the Southern part of the franchise is on strike.
You seem immensely knowledgeable about all of this. Do you think that I would be better off giving the Victoria route a miss and going via London Bridge then? Do you think that the Southern Rail service to Gatwick will be screwed up by the strike to the extent that it would simply be safer to avoid it? That decision really has to be yours on the day.
If you are simply making a single trip into London zone 1 then Oyster or contactless is likely to be the best bet. When you arrive at Gatwick you can see how the trains are running. How to use your Oyster card on Gatwick Express trains in London. You can use Oyster on all of our trains for journeys that start and finish in the London Travelcard area. Top up your credit using the self-service ticket machines at London Victoria or Gatwick Airport.
You can also top up at Underground stations and various shops across London as well as other National Rail stations in London using self service ticket machines. Top up Oyster online at the TfL website and also set an automatic top-up. Oyster is available to Gatwick on the following train lines:.
Yes, you can swipe your bank card to travel between London and the Gatwick train station—contactless is available and subject to the same fares and daily caps as Oyster PAYG.
If you're in a hurry and want to take the train, the cheapest train trip between London and Gatwick during peak times i. While a bus is the cheapest way to get to and from Gatwick, they take 2X to 3X as long as the train. Peak travel for these companies is Monday to Friday from to and from to Pricing on the Thameslink and Southern lines is comparable—not surprising as they're both part of the National Rail.
For comparison sake, an Anytime Day Single fare e. The Gatwick Express doesn't offer off-peak discounts so you always pay the same, regardless of the time of day. So, if you're travelling off peak basically, not during rush hour then it's a lot cheaper to take a National Rail train Southern or Thameslink than the Gatwick Express—and they are nearly just as fast!
Discounts are available when paying for a Gatwick trip by Oyster card if you travel during off peak times. Those looking for the cheapest fare during peak travel times might find a cheaper ticket for Southern or Thameslink direct from National Rail e. Train rides between central London and Gatwick take anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 hour or so, depending on the train company and your London stop.
The quickest trip is usually the Gatwick Express. As you can see in the table below, trains are usually much faster than taking a bus or car. The Thameslink takes a different route in and out of town, making stops in London between London Bridge and St Pancras and beyond.
You can see the routes green for Southern to Victoria, white for Gatwick Express to Victoria and purple for Thameslink to London Bridge in the embedded Google map below. Click on the blue "More options" link to go into the map to alternate between the different train options Southern, Gatwick Express and Thameslink. Once you're in the map, clicking on the blue "Schedule Explorer" lets you view the train options for the date and time of your choice, as you can see in the image below.
This may be useful to help you decide which train to take.
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