Lost Oyster Cards

If you lose your Oyster card and find yourself buying a new one, do not transfer any products from the old card to the new. Report it as lost/stolen and get a replacement (free), then redeem the new card when the replacement arrives.

As you may gather I have fallen into this trap. I transferred the balance and the auto top up from the lost card to the replacement, and TfL won't send out a replacement for the lost card now.

Oyster Extension Permit

Inquisitive, I added one to my Oystercard at Barking Station (using a machine of course). It showed up on my account as "PAYG enabled" or similar, with "Bus" (which puzzled me as I hadn't been on one. Some time later, I noticed I was being charged £4.20 entry each morning and evening at Barking. I never bother swiping at S Tottenham or Harringay Green Lanes as I have a zones 3 & 4 annual travelcard loaded onto the Oystercard. I resumed swiping. The first time the system deducted £4.20 at Barking and credited £4.20 at S Tottenham, and then the problem was fixed.

So that's how an OEP works.

Oyster Card Helpline

An alternative number to 0845 330 9876 the published number is 020 7227 7886. Thanks to www.saynoto0870.com for this information.

Oyster discounted daily price capping - Railcards

Taken from www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/faresandtickets/singlefares/6769.aspx:

"If you hold a National Rail Railcard, you can get an Oyster card and have the Railcard discount entitlement loaded on to it. You can then use Oyster to pay as you go at adult-rate, but your off-peak Oyster daily price cap will be 34% lower than the equivalent adult-rate cap.

Holders of the following National Rail Railcards can benefit from the discounted daily price capping:

• Disabled Persons
• HM Forces,
• Senior
• Young Persons.

You will need to get an Oyster card and have your Railcard discount concession loaded on it."