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Tower Millennium Pier

Coordinates: 51°30′27″N 0°04′45″W / 51.507367°N 0.079182°W / 51.507367; -0.079182
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LRS Tower Pier
TypeRiver bus and tourist/leisure services
LocaleRiver Thames, London, England
OwnerLondon River Services
OperatorUber Boat by Thames Clippers
Characteristics
History
Opening date14 July 2000
Coordinates51°30′27″N 0°04′45″W / 51.507367°N 0.079182°W / 51.507367; -0.079182
Tower Pier is located in Central London
Tower Pier
LRS Tower Pier

Tower Pier is a pier on the River Thames, in Tower Hill, London, England and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is operated by Uber Boat by Thames Clippers and served by various river transport and cruise operators. The pier is close to Tower Bridge and is situated in the immediately adjacent to the southwest corner of the Tower of London.

History

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Tower Millennium Pier, with the City of London's financial core behind, as seen from City Hall

Tower Millennium Pier was opened on 14 July 2000 by London Mayor Ken Livingstone.[1][2] 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.[3]

Services

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The pier is used by the river bus route RB1 from Battersea Power Station to Barking Riverside (operated by Uber Boat by Thames Clippers) and Westminster-Greenwich tourist boats (operated by City Cruises).[4] Private-charter entertainment boats also use Tower Pier.[5]

Connections

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Lifeboat pier move

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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

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Lines

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Preceding station London River Services London River Services London River Services Following station
London Bridge City Pier RB1 Canary Wharf Pier
London Bridge City Pier
towards Putney Pier
RB2 Canary Wharf Pier
RB6 Canary Wharf Pier
London Eye Pier Westminster to Greenwich Express Service Greenwich Pier
Terminus

References

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  1. ^ Mayor opens new look Tower Millennium Pier Transport for London 14 July 2000
  2. ^ "Passenger Piers". Port of London Authority. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ Transport for London. "London River Services timetables". Retrieved 30 March 2008.
  5. ^ For example "Thames Leisure". 10 August 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  6. ^ "Tower Lifeboat Station website". 8 May 2006. Archived from the original on 23 January 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2007.
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