London Eye Pier

London Eye Pier

Type	River bus and tourist/leisure services
Locale	River Thames, London, UK
Owner	Merlin Entertainment
Operator	London River Services

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.

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:

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.

Connections

Local attractions

Lines

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.

Transport in London

Companies and
organisations

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

Train operators	Abellio Greater Anglia Stansted Express c2c Caledonian Sleeper Chiltern Railways East Midlands Trains Eurostar Govia Thameslink Railway Gatwick Express Great Northern Southern Thameslink Grand Central Great Western Railway Heathrow Connect Heathrow Express Hull Trains London Midland London Overground Rail Operations South West Trains Southeastern TfL Rail Virgin Trains (West Coast) Virgin Trains East Coast

Other	Global Infrastructure Partners Heathrow Airport Holdings Port of London Authority

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Roads

Motorways	M1 M4 M11 M25 London Orbital Former: M41 (West Cross Route) A40(M) (Westway) A102(M) (East Cross Route)

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

Charging	Congestion charge Low emission zone

Ticketing

Other

Former BR sectors

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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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