"aquachimp" wrote in message
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On Apr 17, 11:18 pm, (Georg Schwarz) wrote:
I've got a non-personalised, pre-pay London Transport Oyster card that
was last used in December 2007. Must I assume it has been deactivated by
now? If I give it to someone travelling to the UK, can he top it up
again at Heathrow airport and immediately reuse it? Or does it require a
more elaborate reactivation procedure?

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I understand (from the eurostar employee selling them) that they're
fine "valid" for 2 years. I assume that means valid for 2 years if not
topped up. What I don't know is if the 2 years then gets added to the
most recent top-up

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It's a rolling 2 years from the most recent activity [1]. Should the card
become dormant, then asking for it to be re-activated will restore the
previous credit balance

[1] though as previously commented, no-one has ever known this to happen.

tim