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Old Feb 9th 2003 | 7:53 am
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Iain
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Passport size picture at any station + money gets one!
"John H" escribió en el mensaje
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    > Made the trip October 02. Brought spare passport photo's with us. took
    > about 5 minutes to get seven day travel cards and ID's from station at
Kew
    > Gardens
    > "CrazyOne - Greg Pacek" wrote in message
    > news:080220031823310637%[email protected]...
    > > In article , Jerry
    > > Johnson wrote:
    > >
    > > > I have heard that the tube travel card picture is not the same size as
a
    > > > passport picture. Anyone with a travel card care to comment?
    > >
    > > Several years ago I did buy one of the 7-day Travelcards while I was in
    > > London, and it does require the photocard. The photocard takes a
    > > standard passport-sized photo. We went round the corner to a shop that
    > > did a set instantly for us. I still have the photocard somewhere, I
    > > suspect.
    > >
    > > This sort of thing seems to be so common in Europe that my companion at
    > > the time who was from the Netherlands actually had several spare photos
    > > of that size for just that sort of occasion when you might need one!
    > > The idea that you'd need spare ones for various reasons was, and still
    > > is, pretty unheard of in the US.
    > >
    > > Remember that you can't buy 3- and 4-day Travelcards in London, but you
    > > can buy those as well as 7-day Visitor Travelcards from the
    > > http://www.ticket-on-line.com/ site, with no added shipping charge, if
    > > you have planned far enough in advance (about 2 weeks time for shipping
    > > is the minimum they allow). This is an official service of Transport
    > > for London. I went ahead and ordered our 3-day cards from there. If
    > > you order the Visitor Travelcard, you will not need the photocard.
    > >
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Old Feb 9th 2003 | 8:57 am
  #17  
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On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 23:23:41 GMT, CrazyOne - Greg Pacek
wrote:

    >In article , Jerry
    >Johnson wrote:
    >> I have heard that the tube travel card picture is not the same size as a
    >> passport picture. Anyone with a travel card care to comment?
    >Several years ago I did buy one of the 7-day Travelcards while I was in
    >London, and it does require the photocard. The photocard takes a
    >standard passport-sized photo. We went round the corner to a shop that
    >did a set instantly for us. I still have the photocard somewhere, I
    >suspect.

We did it at Victoria Station by using the photo machine. It gives
four passport photos on a sheet and we still have three left each.


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