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Can you tap your contactless card at the barriers to pay for several passengers, e.g. by handing the card to the next one coming in? Or this this method only for single travellers?

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> You can pay for someone else's travel with your contactless card or device if they're travelling with you. You need to pay for your own travel with a different card or device.

https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/how-to-pay-and-where-to-buy-tickets...

So I can't pay for others? I can pay for others but then I need another card or device for me

Exactly.

Let‘s say you have:

1 contactless bank card, 1 iPhone, and 1 Apple Watch

These count as three different cards and would therefore allow you to pay for your own fare and two additional people.

Single traveller per card. You also have to tap out at the end so it can calculate the fare.

If you have more than one card you can let others in your group use those.

Though it’s been a few years since I was travelling with anyone who didn’t have either a contactless card or Apple Pay / the Android equivalent, which also works and is arguably even more convenient.

Even moreso these days, kids are getting their own debit cards.

Does anyone know if you can use Go Henry or Hyperjar cards on the tube?

So long as it has contactless, it's fine.

Yes, you can, at least Go Henry. But you'll pay adult fares, so treat it as a fallback.

All London kids should use a Zip oyster; contactless is always adult fare but with zip it’s child fares (and free buses)

You can buy an Oyster RFID card at the machine for any travellers that don't have bank cards. The fare is the same.

The fare is the same as contactless, but this is only worth it if you're doing many journeys as cards themselves cost £7 each.

The only time you do need an Oyster card is if you want to link a Railcard to it for discounted fares.

You can't. It's one card per traveler.

Single travellers.

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