Service suspended until further notice due to damage at Gravesend Pontoon: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/n ... rs-126806/
Article suggests a minimum 2 week closure. I'll post again if I hear more.
Edit: Check on Twitter.
Tilbury - Gravesend Passenger Ferry - Normal service resumes 22/6
Tilbury - Gravesend Passenger Ferry - Normal service resumes 22/6
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Re: Tilbury - Gravesend Passenger Ferry - Temporary Closure
Didn't know there was a ferry! Suddenly ideas for future trips
Convention? what's that then?
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Re: Tilbury - Gravesend Passenger Ferry - Temporary Closure
foxyrider wrote:Didn't know there was a ferry!
I remember when the CTC Handbook contained a list of bicycle-carrying UK internal ferries, including some much more obscure than the the Tilbury one. There does not seem to be any current equivalent either online or in print.
English ferries from my own knowledge:
Cornwall:
Penzance - St Mary's
Scilly Isles inter-island ferries
Helford Passage
Falmouth - St Mawes
Falmouth - Flushing
Falmouth - Mylor
Falmouth - Truro
St Mawes - St Anthony
Trelissick - Philleigh (King Harry Ferry)
Padstow - Rock
Fowey - Boddinnick
Torpoint - Plymouth
Cremyll - Plymouth
Devon:
(Plymouth ferries as above)
Bigbury - Bantham
Salcombe - East Portlemouth
Dartmouth ferries (2)
Starcross - Exmouth
(Lundy ferry, of limited use to cyclists)
Dorset:
Sandbanks ferry.
Hampshire:
Lymington - Yarmouth
Southampton - Hythe
Southampton - Cowes
East Cowes - West Cowes
Portsmouth - Ryde
Portsmouth - Fishbourne
Portsmouth - Gosport
Southsea - Ryde (hovercraft)
Hamble - Warsash
Hayling Island - Southsea
Sussex:
Bosham - Itchenor
Bristol:
Gas Street ferry
Surrey
Weybridge - Shepperton
Molesey - Hampton
London:
(Hampton as above)
Twickenham ferry
Woolwich ferry
Kent / Essex:
Tilbury - Gravesend
Norfolk:
Reedham ferry
Shropshire:
Hampton Lode ferry
Cumbria:
Windermere ferry
Ambleside - Bowness - Lakeside
Lakeside - Fell Foot
Tyne & Wear:
Shields ferry
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Suffolk/Essex: Harwich Harbour Ferry (Harwich - Shotley - Felixstowe)
Norfolk: King's Lynn Ferry Lane (off King Street) to West Lynn Ferry Square (off Ferry Road) - daytime only, cuts about 2 miles off.
Norfolk: King's Lynn Ferry Lane (off King Street) to West Lynn Ferry Square (off Ferry Road) - daytime only, cuts about 2 miles off.
MJR, mostly pedalling 3-speed roadsters. KL+West Norfolk BUG incl social easy rides http://www.klwnbug.co.uk
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Re: Tilbury - Gravesend Passenger Ferry - Temporary Closure
In Devon also
Instow to Appledore (Torridge Estuary)
Plymouth Barbican to Mount Batten Park (River Plym)
Wembury Point to Newton Ferrers and Noss Mayo (River Yealm)
Shaldon to Teignmouth (River Teign)
Turf/Topsham (River Exe)
Topsham Ferry (River Exe)
Instow to Appledore (Torridge Estuary)
Plymouth Barbican to Mount Batten Park (River Plym)
Wembury Point to Newton Ferrers and Noss Mayo (River Yealm)
Shaldon to Teignmouth (River Teign)
Turf/Topsham (River Exe)
Topsham Ferry (River Exe)
Re: Tilbury - Gravesend Passenger Ferry - Temporary Closure
Ferry Service resumes from Monday 12th June 2017 from West St Pier.
West St Pier is the usual stopping point of the very early morning services. It is about 200 yards west of Town Pier and is helpfully signed "Ferry Terminal".
West St Pier is the usual stopping point of the very early morning services. It is about 200 yards west of Town Pier and is helpfully signed "Ferry Terminal".
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Suffolk - Butley
Suffolk - Walberswick, Southwold
Suffolk - Bawdsey, Felixstowe
Suffolk - Walberswick, Southwold
Suffolk - Bawdsey, Felixstowe
Re: Tilbury - Gravesend Passenger Ferry - Normal service resumes 22/6
Services return to normal today.
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mjr wrote:Suffolk/Essex: Harwich Harbour Ferry (Harwich - Shotley - Felixstowe)
You have to ring him if you want to take a bike Felixstowe Ferry will just take you though.