In London, what we call a "subway" is known as "The Tube" or "The Underground."

Please visit the Tube website and view a Tube map to learn about Tube schedules and station locations.

You can also plan your trips. It will tell you how to get to a specific landmark or street address, which tube to take, which transfers to take and what it will cost.

When we go on group excursions, the Tube schedule will be provided for you and you will be escorted by your faculty member(s).

Download a tube map app. The best one we have found is called the TFL GO

The program will include a starter Oyster Card (swipe card) for the Tube. This will cover most of your class-related London Tube travel. You are responsible for your voluntary and free-time Tube travel in London. Oyster can also be downloaded as a pay as you go phone swipe option. However, Texas State will not allow us to add money to your personal phone, so you will have a plastic card with money loaded upon arrival.

Oyster is generally the cheapest way to make single journeys in the Capital.

An Oyster Card can store up to £90 of credit, which can be used to pay as you go.

It can be used on bus, Tube, trams, DLR, London Overground and some National Rail services in London.

Pay as you go has several advantages over paper tickets:

Oyster single fares are generally cheaper
Credit can be used as you need it and doesn't expire
Daily price capping automatically calculates the cheapest fare for all the journeys you make in a single day