Purchase London underground travel pass in US?
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Passport size picture at any station + money gets one!
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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
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> > 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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"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.
> >
> > --
> > CrazyOne | "I say what it occurs to me to say
> > aka Greg Pacek | when I think I hear people say
> > Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Earth | things. More I cannot say."
> ---
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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.
************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
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.
************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *




