"Roland Perry" wrote in message ...

In message , at 12:25:02 on
Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Peter Masson
remarked:
That Oyster Photocard would be the "toddler Freedom Pass" then. How does a
tourist get one of those issued without using a ticket office to paste the
photo in?

The official name is a 5-10 Zip Oyster Photocard. As part of the
application process you upload a digital photo, If they can cope with age
verification online they post the card to you;

How does the verification work if you are a foreign tourist? Must be
quite a system they have that'll verify the details of a Venuzuelan
passport online.

if they can't the application has to be completed and the card issued at a
Travel Information Centre.

Where are they? The only ones I was familiar with are St James's Park
and Trafalgar Square, and I thought they'd both been closed. Is there
one at Heathrow, so the arriving tourist can get their card before
catching the tube?

Ticket offices aren't part of the application process. London residents can
apply in person at a Post Office in London, but may, and non-London
residents have to, apply online.

Sounds like a bit of a hassle after arriving at Heathrow jetlagged, and
wanting your right to free travel. Assuming you can find some
connectivity in the tube station to log in I suppose. The well prepared
road warrior might have a digital photo of their offspring handy though.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...tocard-terms-a
nd-conditions.pdf

The well-organised Venezuelan tourist will have applied online from home,
then complete the application, showing the Venezuelan passport as
proof-of-age at the TIC at Heathrow. Others are at Kings Cross, Euston,
Liverpool Street, Victoria, and Piccadilly Circus.

Though the 5-10 yo Venezuelan tourist is unlikely to be travelling
unaccompanied, and tube travel for this age-group is free, without
photocard, if accompanying an adult ticket-holder (or an adult who has
touched in with Oyster).

Peter