Oyster & Contactless

What are Oyster and Contactless payment cards?

Oyster and contactless payment cards are plastic smartcards used for quick and easy payments; you can use them instead of paper tickets to pay for travel.

• If you use an Oyster card, you either have to add tickets or credit to pay as you go before you travel.
• If you use contactless payment cards you do not need to add credit before you travel. Just pay as you go and all the travel you make in one day will be charged as a single transaction.

Oyster and contactless payment cards are the cheapest way to pay for single fares.

7 days charge & journey history

If you have not signed up for an online account, you can only access the last 7 calendar days of journey history and charges. To do this, you will need the card that you used to travel.

You will not be able to see details of journeys you made today until tomorrow.