London Eye Pier

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London Eye Pier

Locale	River Thames, London, UK
Transit type	River bus and tourist/leisure services
Owner	London River Services
London River Services
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The London Eye Pier^[1] (or Waterloo Millennium Pier) is directly in front of the London Eye Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in Central London, England.

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

It should not be confused with the former Waterloo Police Pier, on the opposite side of the river on Victoria Embankment next to Waterloo Bridge, which has since been renamed the Tower Lifeboat Station and has been the base for the RNLI's Thames lifeboat service since 2006.^[2]

Construction

The pier was designed by Beckett Rankine^[3] and built by Tilbury Douglas (now Interserve), principally to act as a collision protection system for the London Eye.

It was one of five new piers opened in 2000 on the Thames funded by the Millennium Commission as part of the Thames 2000 project (the others being Blackfriars Millennium Pier, Millbank Millennium Pier, Tower Millennium Pier, and Westminster Millennium Pier), as part of an integrated transport and regeneration strategy for the Thames led by London's Cross River Partnership.^[4]

Services

The pier is served by various services including:

The Tate to Tate service linking the two Tate Galleries (Thames Clipper)
Commuter boat services between Embankment and Woolwich (Thames Clipper)
Summer leisure cruises between Westminster and Greenwich (City Cruises)

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

Waterloo tube station for Waterloo & City, Bakerloo, Jubilee and Northern lines
Embankment tube station is a short walk over the Golden Jubilee Bridges
Westminster tube station is a short walk over Westminster Bridge

National Rail

London Waterloo station and London Waterloo East station for National Rail
Charing Cross railway station (also over the Hungerford Bridge)

London River Services

Festival Pier is a short distance downriver on the same bank
Westminster Millennium Pier (also over Westminster Bridge)

London Buses

Buses stopping on Westminster Bridge are the nearest services.

Local attractions

London Eye
London Aquarium
Dali Universe
Florence Nightingale Museum
Big Ben
South Bank arts precinct

Preceding station	London River Services	Following station
Embankment Pier Terminus	Commuter Service	Blackfriars Millennium Pier toward Woolwich Arsenal Pier
Millbank Millennium Pier Terminus	Tate to Tate	Bankside Pier Terminus
Westminster Millennium Pier Terminus	Westminster to Greenwich Express Service	Tower Millennium Pier toward Greenwich Pier

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to London Eye Pier.

↑ London Eye Pier Route Map PDF
↑ "Tower Lifeboat Station website". 2006-05-08. Archived from the original on 2008-01-23. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
↑ Beckett Rankine – London Eye Pier Design
↑ "Ken Livingstone Opens New Millennium Commission Funded Pier". The Millennium Commission press release. 2000-07-13. Retrieved 2008-03-30.

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Coordinates: 51°30′12″N 0°07′14″W / 51.50341°N 0.120527°W / 51.50341; -0.120527

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