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Making a Journey by Underground

When you first enter
1the station, check
which line, or lines,
you need to take. The
times of first and last
trains are also posted
at every station.
Feed your ticket into the slot at
the front of the machine; retrieve
Buy your ticket it from the slot at the top.
2or Travelcard from a
ticket office or ticket
machine at the station.
Keep your ticket; you will
need it to exit at your
destination. Pre-bought
Oyster cards can be
topped up at machines
or online for later trips. Touch an Oyster card or
You can also use
contact less credit/debit contactless credit/debit card
cards to make a journey. on the yellow card reader.
The platforms are on
3the other side of the
ticket barriers.

Follow the directions
4to the line on which
you need to travel.
In some cases this
can be a complicated
route, but it will be
well signposted.
The ticket office is near the
ticket barriers in most stations. You will eventually
5find yourself with a
All platforms have choice of platforms for
6electronic indicators the line you want. Look
displaying the final at the list of stations if
destination of the you are not sure which
next two or three direction to take.
trains and how long
you will have to wait
before they arrive. On
lines with branches,
they also indicate the
route of each train.
Once you have begun your
7journey, you can check on
your progress using the
line chart displayed in On all DLR and some Tube
every carriage. The name trains, push a button to
of the next station is open the carriage doors.
announced before you After leaving the train,
arrive, and as you pull into 8look for signs giving
each station, you will see directions to exits or
its name posted along to platforms for any
the walls. connecting lines.

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