London Eye Pier

 London River Services
London Eye Pier
Locale River Thames, London, UK
Transit type River bus and tourist/leisure services
Owner London River Services
Operator Thames Clipper
London River Services
London Transport portal

London Eye Pier[1] (or "Waterloo Millennium Pier") is a pier on South Bank of the River Thames in Central London, UK, located directly in front of the London Eye.

It is operated by the London Eye and served by various river transport and cruise operators in conjunction with London River Services.

London Eye Pier (Waterloo Millennium Pier) should not be confused with the former Waterloo Police Pier which is on the opposite side of the river on Victoria Embankment next to Waterloo Bridge. This pier has since been renamed the Tower Lifeboat Station and has been the base for the RNLI's Thames lifeboat service since 2006.[2]

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Construction

London Eye Pier was designed principally to act as a collision protection system for the London Eye. The pier was designed by Marks Barfield architects with Beckett Rankine as engineer and built by Tilbury Douglas (now Interserve). It was funded by the Millennium Commission as part of the Thames 2000 project, and was one of five new piers opened in 2000 by the Commission on the Thames (the others being Blackfriars Millennium Pier, London Eye Pier, Westminster Millennium Pier and Millbank Millennium Pier). Its creation was funded by the project was part of an integrated transport and regeneration strategy for the Thames led by London's Cross River Partnership.[3]

Services

The pier is served by various services including:

Waterloo is a turnaround point for the commuter boat; upriver services call at Embankment, then Waterloo, where they begin the downriver service back towards Bankside.

Transport links

London Underground
National Rail
London River Services
London Buses

Buses stopping on Westminster Bridge are the nearest services.

Local attractions

Preceding station   London River Services   Following station
Terminus
 Commuter Service
Terminus
 Tate to Tate
Terminus
Terminus
 Westminster to Greenwich Express Service

References

  1. ^ London Eye Pier Route MapPDF
  2. ^ "Tower Lifeboat Station website". 2006-05-08. Archived from the original on 2008-01-23. http://web.archive.org/web/20080123105559/http://www.natoli.co.uk/rnli/station.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-13. 
  3. ^ "Ken Livingstone Opens New Millennium Commission Funded Pier". The Millennium Commission press release. 2000-07-13. http://www.millennium.gov.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=1213. Retrieved 2008-03-30.