Tower Millennium Pier

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London River Services
Tower Millennium Pier
Tower Millennium Pier, with the City of London's financial core behind, as seen from City Hall
Locale	River Thames, London, UK
Transit type	River bus and tourist/leisure services
Owner	London River Services
Operator	London River Services
London River Services
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Tower Millennium Pier is a pier on the River Thames, in London, UK. 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 Tower of London, next to the Traitors' Gate.

Services

The pier is used by river bus services from Embankment to Woolwich (operated by Thames Clipper) and Westminster-Greenwich tourist boats (operated by City Cruises).^[1] Private-charter entertainment boats also use Tower Pier.^[2]

Millennium fund

Tower Millennium Pier was opened on 14 July by London Mayor Ken Livingstone. Its creation 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]

Transport links

Local transport connections are all about five minutes' walk from Tower Millennium Pier:

London Underground services run from Tower Hill tube station (District and Circle lines).
St. Katharine Pier is located just on the other side of Tower Bridge, offering tourist river cruise services including the "hop-on, hop-off" circular service operated by Crown River Cruises.
Tower Gateway DLR station provides Docklands Light Railway services to Canary Wharf DLR station, Stratford and Lewisham.
Fenchurch Street railway station offers National Rail services to Essex.

Lifeboat pier move

In 2002 the RNLI'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.^[4]

Future

Under plans announced in April 2009, Tower Millennium Pier is being extended on its upstream end during 2011 to accommodate more river boat services.^[5]

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

Preceding station		London River Services		Following station
London Bridge City Pier toward Embankment Pier		Commuter Service		Canary Wharf Pier toward Woolwich Arsenal Pier
London Eye Pier toward Westminster Millennium Pier		Westminster to Greenwich Express Service		Greenwich Pier Terminus

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tower Millennium Pier.

↑ Transport for London. "London River Services timetables". Retrieved 2008-03-30.
↑ For example "London Party Boats ltd.". Retrieved 2008-03-30.
↑ "Ken Livingstone Opens New Millennium Commission Funded Pier". The Millennium Commission press release. 2000-07-13. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
↑ "Tower Lifeboat Station website". 2006-05-08. Archived from the original on 2008-01-23. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
↑ "Making the Thames an easier option". Mayor of London/GLA. 2009-04-06. Retrieved 2009-04-14.

Transport in London

Companies and
organisations

Transport for London	Air Line Buses Coach Station Cycle Hire Dial-a-Ride London Rail Docklands Light Railway London Overground Tramlink Under construction: Crossrail London River Services London Streets London Underground Source London Taxi and Private Hire Office

Bus operators	Abellio Arriva East Herts & Essex Arriva London Arriva Southern Counties CT Plus Go-Ahead London London United Metrobus Metroline Quality Line Stagecoach London Tower Transit Transdev London Sovereign Uno

River operators	Bateaux London City Cruises Crown River Cruises Livett's Launches Lower Thames and Medway Passenger Boat Company Thames Clippers Thames Executive Charters Thames River Services

Train operators	Abellio Greater Anglia c2c Chiltern Railways East Coast East Midlands Trains Eurostar First Capital Connect First Great Western First Hull Trains First ScotRail Gatwick Express Grand Central Heathrow Connect Heathrow Express London Midland London Overground South West Trains Southeastern Southern Stansted Express Virgin Trains

Other	Global Infrastructure Partners Heathrow Airport Holdings Manchester Airports Group Port of London Authority

Airports

Main	City Gatwick Heathrow Luton Stansted Proposed: Thames Estuary

Other	Lydd Airport Oxford Southend Private: Biggin Hill Damyns Hall Military: Northolt Brize Norton

Major stations

Central area	Bank/Monument Baker Street Blackfriars Bond Street Cannon Street Charing Cross City Thameslink Euston Farringdon Fenchurch Street King's Cross Liverpool Street London Bridge Marylebone Moorgate Oxford Circus Paddington St Pancras International Tottenham Court Road Vauxhall Victoria Waterloo Waterloo East Westminster

Other	Barking Bromley South Canary Wharf Clapham Junction Ealing Broadway East Croydon Heathrow Stations Highbury & Islington Ilford Lewisham London City Airport Orpington Putney Richmond Romford Stratford Surbiton Sutton Wimbledon

Roads

Motorways	M1 M3 M4 M11 M20 M23 M25 London Orbital M40 Former: M41 A40(M) A102(M)

Ring roads	London Inner Ring Road London Ringways North Circular Road South Circular Road

Charging	Congestion charge Dartford Crossing Low emission zone

Ticketing

Other

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Coordinates: 51°30′27″N 0°04′45″W / 51.507367°N 0.079182°W / 51.507367; -0.079182

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