The Woolwich Ferry is a free vehicle and pedestrian ferry across the River Thames in East London, connecting Woolwich on the south bank with North Woolwich on the north.[1] It is licensed and financed by London River Services, the maritime arm of Transport for London (TfL). Around two million passengers use the ferry each year.
A ferry has operated on the Thames at Woolwich since the 14th century, and commercial crossings operated intermittently until the mid-19th. The free service opened in 1889 after tolls were abolished on bridges to the west of London. Traffic increased in the 20th century because of the rise in motor vehicle traffic and it remained popular because of the lack of nearby bridges. Pedestrian use dropped after the construction of a parallel foot tunnel and the extension of the Docklands Light Railway to Woolwich Arsenal station. Alternatives such as the Thames Gateway Bridge and Gallions Reach Crossing have been proposed as replacements, but there are no plans to discontinue the Woolwich Ferry as long as there is demand.
^"Woolwich Free Ferry timetable". Transport for London. Archived from the original on 10 March 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
The WoolwichFerry is a free vehicle and pedestrian ferry across the River Thames in East London, connecting Woolwich on the south bank with North Woolwich...
the Burrage Estate. Medieval Woolwich was susceptible to flooding. In 1236 many were killed by a flood. WoolwichFerry was first mentioned in 1308 but...
across the river from Woolwich. It is connected to Woolwich by the WoolwichFerry and Woolwich foot tunnel. Despite lying on the northern, Essex, side...
pedestrians and cyclists an alternative way to cross the river when the Woolwich Free Ferry service is not operating. Both entrances to the tunnel (north entrance...
the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Originally a proposed ferry crossing replacing the WoolwichFerry, later plans suggested either a bridge or a tunnel. Plans...
London, except for crossing of the River Thames, which is done by the WoolwichFerry. The road was constructed in the Interwar period to connect local industrial...
Woolwichferry wharf (also known as Valentia Street ferry wharf) is located on Sydney Harbour serving the Sydney suburb of Woolwich. It served by Sydney...
of the WoolwichFerry service. The ship is named after a teenage deckhand who drowned in an accident while untying mooring ropes of the ferry Ernest Bevin...
Transdev Sydney Ferries and services the Balmain, Greenwich, Woolwich and Cockatoo Island areas of Sydney Harbour. Prior to 2007, Sydney Ferries and its predecessors...
East London Docklands Campus for Gallions Reach station North Woolwich for the WoolwichFerry The route operates at a frequency of a bus every 12 minutes...
Old Woolwich or Woolwich Central Riverside is an area along the Thames in Woolwich, South East London. It is the oldest inhabited part of Woolwich, going...
London. It does not own or operate any boats itself, except those of the WoolwichFerry, but licenses the services of operators. River service had been a common...
Railway Society. p. 28. Sweiszkowski, Jerry (Summer 1987). "The ECR WoolwichFerry". the Eastern Counties Railway 150th anniversary. Vol. RH003. Great...
(8 km) east of the City of London, north of the River Thames (the WoolwichFerry and Woolwich foot tunnel providing the only crossings to the south), bounded...
necessary when barges were powered by steam. Some ferries still operate on the river. The WoolwichFerry carries cars and passengers across the river in...
tunnel, the Woolwich foot tunnel and WoolwichFerry, or the Docklands Light Railway, from King George V station under the river to Woolwich Arsenal station...
Pentland Ferries (Orkney, Scotland) Polferries (the Baltic Sea) Red Funnel (Isle of Wight to mainland England.) Royal Borough of Greenwich (WoolwichFerry across...
segregated cycle path in London originally planned to run from Tower Bridge to Woolwich and coordinated by Transport for London. First proposed in 2008 but first...
Moors Railway is named Dame Vera Lynn. One of two new boats for the WoolwichFerry service, which were delivered via Tilbury in autumn 2018, was named...
Rotherhithe and Blackwall, with the WoolwichFerry further east. There are also foot tunnels to Greenwich and Woolwich. Inner London for statistics Metropolitan...
traffic can cross the Thames east of the WoolwichFerry; the only crossing further to the east is a passenger ferry between Gravesend, Kent, and Tilbury,...
discovered a Saxon burial site in the area close to the Thames east of WoolwichFerry. It contained 76 skeletons from the late 7th or early 8th century. The...
Burns, Ernest Bevin, and James Newman) which were in service for the WoolwichFerry until 2018 featured Voith-Schneider propulsion systems. They were built...
June 2020. John Burns is commemorated in the name given to a current WoolwichFerry "World War II bomb found at Canary Wharf". BBC News. 28 July 2007. "Mudchute...
to the Isle of Sheppey, during the 20th century, the WoolwichFerry is the only domestic ferry that runs in the broadest definition of the county. The...
Borough of Tower Hamlets and between Woolwich and North Woolwich in the London Borough of Newham. The WoolwichFerry takes vehicle traffic and links the...
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