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Kentish town tube
Could anybody give me a rough idea how long the walk is to Claremont Road,Cricklewood at a steady pace from Kentish town tube station?Also can you purchase one day oyster cards or are they mimimun three days? Thankyou
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There's no such thing as a one day Oyster card - or a three day one come to that.
A day return Kentish Town to Cricklewood is £4
PAYG Oyster for the same journey is £1.50/£1.90 single offpeak/peak
What's cheapest for you depends on where you are starting from - ie your complete journey, not just this section of it
A day return Kentish Town to Cricklewood is £4
PAYG Oyster for the same journey is £1.50/£1.90 single offpeak/peak
What's cheapest for you depends on where you are starting from - ie your complete journey, not just this section of it
Second bit first:
While it is possible to put a Travelcard validity onto an Oyster Card (for regular travel) that's not what you'll need to do for a brief visit to London. You'll either need to buy a One Day Travelcard or an Oyster Card with cash credit on it.
Kentish Town tube station is in Zone 2. Assuming that you only travel within Zones 1 & 2, a One Day Travelcard will cost you £8.00 if you need to include ravel before 0930 (Monday to Friday) or £6.60 if you only travel at other times.
An Oyster Card will need a £3 refundable deposit to obtain it, plus you'll need to charge it with an appropriate amount of cash. Each Tube journey will deduct £4 from your credit, but the maximum amount of credit deducted each day can't exceed what you would have paid for a One Day Travelcard to cover the same journeys.
What all of that comes down to is that, if you're only going to London once, a One Day Travelcard is your best option. If you'll be returning frequently, an Oyster Card is best.
However, as I've pointed out previously to you, there's no convenient Tube station for getting to Lansdowne Care Home. (Cricklewood National Rail station is nearby). The post code for that location is NW2 1TU. The postcode for Kentish Town station is NW5 2AA. Putting those post codes into Google Maps, gives the distance as 4.1 miles, so you're looking at over an hour's steady walking. (Perhaps 1 hour 20 minutes).
Chris
While it is possible to put a Travelcard validity onto an Oyster Card (for regular travel) that's not what you'll need to do for a brief visit to London. You'll either need to buy a One Day Travelcard or an Oyster Card with cash credit on it.
Kentish Town tube station is in Zone 2. Assuming that you only travel within Zones 1 & 2, a One Day Travelcard will cost you £8.00 if you need to include ravel before 0930 (Monday to Friday) or £6.60 if you only travel at other times.
An Oyster Card will need a £3 refundable deposit to obtain it, plus you'll need to charge it with an appropriate amount of cash. Each Tube journey will deduct £4 from your credit, but the maximum amount of credit deducted each day can't exceed what you would have paid for a One Day Travelcard to cover the same journeys.
What all of that comes down to is that, if you're only going to London once, a One Day Travelcard is your best option. If you'll be returning frequently, an Oyster Card is best.
However, as I've pointed out previously to you, there's no convenient Tube station for getting to Lansdowne Care Home. (Cricklewood National Rail station is nearby). The post code for that location is NW2 1TU. The postcode for Kentish Town station is NW5 2AA. Putting those post codes into Google Maps, gives the distance as 4.1 miles, so you're looking at over an hour's steady walking. (Perhaps 1 hour 20 minutes).
Chris
Correction to my post:
The amount deducted from an Oyster Card for a journey between Zones 1 & 2 is either £2.50 or £1.90 depending upon the time of day, not £4 (which is the cash fare) as I stated. So there might be some point to obtaining an Oyster Card for a single trip to London (as long as those were the only journeys you'd be taking).
Dzug2 was more 'on the ball' than me, but his figures still appear to be out of date.
Chris
The amount deducted from an Oyster Card for a journey between Zones 1 & 2 is either £2.50 or £1.90 depending upon the time of day, not £4 (which is the cash fare) as I stated. So there might be some point to obtaining an Oyster Card for a single trip to London (as long as those were the only journeys you'd be taking).
Dzug2 was more 'on the ball' than me, but his figures still appear to be out of date.
Chris
A few more thoughts:
There are regular trains from Kentish Town to Cricklewood, with a journey time of 17 minutes.
Or, you could walk to Gospel Oak station. (The Transport for London website says that it's a 19 minute walk but I've found that their estimates are usually quite excessive). Then take the C11 bus (every 8 minutes) for the 45 minute trip to Cricklewood, leaving you just a 2 minute walk to the care home..
Chris
There are regular trains from Kentish Town to Cricklewood, with a journey time of 17 minutes.
Or, you could walk to Gospel Oak station. (The Transport for London website says that it's a 19 minute walk but I've found that their estimates are usually quite excessive). Then take the C11 bus (every 8 minutes) for the 45 minute trip to Cricklewood, leaving you just a 2 minute walk to the care home..
Chris
Thanks for the reply, Gleno1.
If I recall correctly, you're travelling to London to visit someone in Lansdowne Care Home but a member of your party has difficulty with steps. The nearest 'step-free' Underground station to the care home is Kilburn, on the Jubilee Line. It's about a mile away but the 189 bus runs from the station along Claremont Road, passing the care home.
However that won't help you much unless you can access the Victoria Line via a route with very few (if any) steps. If you're still staying in the Kings Cross area, your route would have to be by taking the Metropolitan Line from Kings Cross/St Pancras to Finchley Road and then changing to the Jubiliee Line for the one stop to Kilburn:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk...ee-tube-guide-map.pdf
Alternatively you could stay at the Black Lion in Kilburn. It's reasonably close to the Tube station and the 189 bus runs past its front door:
http://www.lodging-wo...est+house.121318.html
Chris
If I recall correctly, you're travelling to London to visit someone in Lansdowne Care Home but a member of your party has difficulty with steps. The nearest 'step-free' Underground station to the care home is Kilburn, on the Jubilee Line. It's about a mile away but the 189 bus runs from the station along Claremont Road, passing the care home.
However that won't help you much unless you can access the Victoria Line via a route with very few (if any) steps. If you're still staying in the Kings Cross area, your route would have to be by taking the Metropolitan Line from Kings Cross/St Pancras to Finchley Road and then changing to the Jubiliee Line for the one stop to Kilburn:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk...ee-tube-guide-map.pdf
Alternatively you could stay at the Black Lion in Kilburn. It's reasonably close to the Tube station and the 189 bus runs past its front door:
http://www.lodging-wo...est+house.121318.html
Chris
<<Dzug2 was more 'on the ball' than me, but his figures still appear to be out of date>>
Nope - not out of date - straight off the TfL 2011 fares list unless I've miscopied them. Zone 2/3 National Rail Oyster fares
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OK gleno1 may be making a longer journey - but they are correct for the journey asked about.
Nope - not out of date - straight off the TfL 2011 fares list unless I've miscopied them. Zone 2/3 National Rail Oyster fares
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OK gleno1 may be making a longer journey - but they are correct for the journey asked about.
Dzug2:
I was looking at Tube fares
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14416.aspx
forgetting that National Rail fares are, oddly, sometimes cheaper:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14414.aspx
I was looking at Tube fares
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14416.aspx
forgetting that National Rail fares are, oddly, sometimes cheaper:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14414.aspx
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