Tower Millennium Pier
Type | River bus and tourist/leisure services |
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Locale | River Thames, London, England |
Owner | London River Services |
Operator | London River Services |
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History | |
Opening date | 14 July 2000 |
Coordinates | 51°30′27″N 0°04′45″W / 51.507367°N 0.079182°WCoordinates: 51°30′27″N 0°04′45″W / 51.507367°N 0.079182°W |
Tower Millennium Pier is a pier on the River Thames, in Tower Hill, London, England. It is operated by London River Services and served by various river transport and cruise operators. The pier is close to Tower Bridge and is situated immediately adjacent to the southwest corner of the Tower of London.
Services[]
The pier is used by the river bus route RB1 from Embankment to Woolwich (operated by Thames Clippers) and Westminster-Greenwich tourist boats (operated by City Cruises).[1] Private-charter entertainment boats also use Tower Pier.[2]
History[]
Tower Millennium Pier was opened on 14 July 2000 by London Mayor Ken Livingstone.[3][4] It was funded by the Millennium Commission as part of the Thames 2000 project, and was one of five new piers provided by the Commission on the Thames (the others being Blackfriars Millennium Pier, London Eye Pier, Westminster Millennium Pier and Millbank Millennium Pier).
The pier has at its upstream end a small cruise terminal facility which is used for processing passengers and baggage transferred by boat from cruise ships berthed alongside HMS Belfast. The Tower Pier project was part of an integrated transport and regeneration strategy for the Thames led by London's Cross River Partnership.[5]
Connections[]
- Tower Hill tube station and Tower Gateway DLR station, Fenchurch Street railway station
- Tower Bridge Quay on the other side of Tower Bridge for Crown River Cruises
- London Buses routes 15 and N15
Lifeboat pier move[]
In 2002 the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's Thames lifeboat service was introduced to the River Thames following the Marchioness disaster, and Tower Pier was initially used as a base for the lifeboat service. In 2006 the RNLI station moved up-river to a new base, the former Waterloo Police Pier on Victoria Embankment next to Waterloo Bridge, which took the name Tower Lifeboat Station.[6]
Images[]
Tower Millennium Pier with Tower Bridge
A catamaran arriving at Tower Pier
The pier entrance
The pier with the Tower of London on the right
The pier and Tower Bridge seen from the air
A catamaran berthed at the pier
Lines[]
References[]
- ^ Transport for London. "London River Services timetables". Retrieved 30 March 2008.
- ^ For example "Thames Leisure". 10 August 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
- ^ Mayor opens new look Tower Millenium Pier Transport for London 14 July 2000
- ^ "Passenger Piers". Port of London Authority. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Ken Livingstone Opens New Millennium Commission Funded Pier". The Millennium Commission press release. 13 July 2000. Archived from the original on 9 December 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2008.
- ^ "Tower Lifeboat Station website". 8 May 2006. Archived from the original on 23 January 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2007.
External links[]
Media related to Tower Millennium Pier at Wikimedia Commons
- Buildings and structures celebrating the third millennium
- London River Services
- Piers in London
- Tower of London
- Transport in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- Transport infrastructure completed in 2000
- 2000 establishments in England