Limited edition Jubilee & London 2012 Olympics Oyster cards

TfL are to produce a limited number of special Oyster cards to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee & the 2012 London Olympic Games. Around 250,000 cards with the Queen's face on them will be available from mid May 2012 and 1.5 million cards for the Olympics will be on sale from June 2012.


Boris Johnson gave the Queen her commemorative Oyster card yesterday as he led a delegation to Buckingham Palace to deliver a loyal address.  It's unlikely that she'll use it as I think she was last seen on the Tube when the Victoria Line opened in 1969, but you never know.

You'll be able to get your hands on both cards at all London Underground ticket offices & selected Oyster ticket machines within Zone 1, as well as TfL Travel Information Centres. The official designs   unveiled by TfL will have the normal  £5 deposit and £5 minimum top-up.


The second card, expected to be available in mid June, celebrates all of the events taking place in the capital this summer, including the London 2012 Games. Shashi Verma, TfL's Director of Customer Experience, said: 'Commemorative Oyster cards have been very popular with the travelling public in the past and we are delighted to be able to offer Londoners and visitors the chance to have a special memento of what will be a summer like no other.'

He added: 'Transport will play a vital role in bringing people out to see The Queen during her Diamond Jubilee, and in getting people to all of the sporting and cultural events during the London 2012 Games and so it is fitting that we have limited edition Oyster cards that they can use and keep to mark these wonderful, once in a lifetime, occasions.'

Boris was equally happy about people rushing to this summer's event and said in the loyal address "Londoners will flock to the banks of the Thames to see your Jubilee Pageant pass down the river and the whole city looks forward to the moment in the summer when Your Majesty will declare the Games open, in the heart of a renewed east London, now transformed from the devastation of the blitz and post-war decline."


The first "limited edition" Oyster card was introduced last year for the Royal Wedding and 750,000 were produced.  TfL are clearly hoping that sales of the new ones for the "summer of celebration" will be just as popular.

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