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Title: Loss of small passenger ferries Post by: CyclingSid on March 27, 2020, 07:33:34 I am wondering how small local ferry services are going to survive Covid-19.
Hayling ferry – Suspended https://www.haylingferry.net/ (https://www.haylingferry.net/) Itchenor ferry – season starts April https://www.itchenorferry.co.uk/ (https://www.itchenorferry.co.uk/) Hamble ferry – Suspended https://www.hambleferry.co.uk/ (https://www.hambleferry.co.uk/) Keyhaven – Hurst Castle ferry – Closed https://www.hurstcastle.co.uk/ferry-ride/ (https://www.hurstcastle.co.uk/ferry-ride/) Mudeford ferry – Closed http://www.mudefordferry.co.uk/ (http://www.mudefordferry.co.uk/) Shepperton ferry https://www.nauticalia-marine-services.co.uk/shepperton-weybridge-pedestrian-ferry/ (https://www.nauticalia-marine-services.co.uk/shepperton-weybridge-pedestrian-ferry/) Hammertons ferry – Suspended http://www.hammertonsferry.com/ (http://www.hammertonsferry.com/) Hampton ferry – Suspended http://www.hamptonferryboathouse.co.uk/ (http://www.hamptonferryboathouse.co.uk/) Which are the ferries in the area I normally travel round. Most tend to be small family-type businesses (Hayling ferry now owned by a slightly larger marine services company) which provide useful links for the local community and help the local tourist trade (which will reappear eventually). Possibly fall in the gaps between the Chancellor's schemes. If you are interested in other ferries I believe a comprehensive listing can be found at: https://charlesclosesociety.org/ferries I think some of these were probably collated when the Hayling Ferry was insolvent. Title: Re: Loss of small passenger ferries Post by: grahame on March 27, 2020, 08:24:48 Perhaps some of these are slightly larger ... but in our area, I also think of
Dartmouth to Kingswear Southampton to Hythe Portsmouth Harbour to Gosport Falmouth to St Mawes Padstow to Rock Bristol Harbour Weymouth Harbour Sandbanks Cremyll Ferry Torpoint Ferry Penzance to Scillies Ferry to Lundy Title: Re: Loss of small passenger ferries Post by: SandTEngineer on March 27, 2020, 08:48:35 Some more to add:
Polruan Pedestrian Ferry Bodinnick Car Ferry (Looe to Fowey) East Looe to West Looe Cawsand (Plymouth) Title: Re: Loss of small passenger ferries Post by: eightf48544 on March 27, 2020, 09:00:37 in ex GWR territory.
The Symonds Yat ferry which swings acroos the Wye on a cable using the current. Carbon free! Aren't there a coiuple of ferries near Severn Valley stations? Title: Re: Loss of small passenger ferries Post by: ray951 on March 27, 2020, 09:17:05 East Cowes to West Cowes
Title: Re: Loss of small passenger ferries Post by: grahame on March 27, 2020, 09:29:18 East Cowes to West Cowes (http://www.wellho.net/pix/pioneercows.jpg) Sorry - couldn't resist. Thank you to the Pioneer Woman (https://thepioneerwoman.com/photography/two-cows-from-me-to-you/) for making this image available Title: Re: Loss of small passenger ferries Post by: SandTEngineer on March 27, 2020, 09:30:29 I searched for a photograph for East Looe to West Looe but couldn't find one...... :P
If you do find one, please, please don't post it here :o Title: Re: Loss of small passenger ferries Post by: eightonedee on March 27, 2020, 13:11:49 add - Exmouth to Starcross and Topsham to Exminster Marshes. When I last used the latter, we had to wait because the ferryman suspended the service to rescue a yacht that had broken free from its mooring and was drifting down river!
Title: Re: Loss of small passenger ferries Post by: Bmblbzzz on March 27, 2020, 13:26:27 Lower Lode ferry, just outside Tewkesbury: https://www.tewkesbury.town/tewkesbury-ferry-lower-lode/index.htm
Just to note Bristol Harbour has two regular ferry services: one runs up and down the river and harbour, while the other runs across the harbour more or less opposite the SS Great Britain. Title: Re: Loss of small passenger ferries Post by: Bmblbzzz on March 27, 2020, 13:32:12 Depending how far back you want to go, there are loads of places where the road layout indicates there must have been a small ferry at one point. For instance this one, also not far from Tewkesbury. No idea when it last ran:
https://www.streetmap.co.uk/idld.srf?X=390672&Y=236601&A=Y&Z=120&lm=1 Title: Re: Loss of small passenger ferries Post by: SandTEngineer on March 27, 2020, 14:26:23 A few more lesser known ones:
Instow to Appledore (Torridge Estuary) Gillan to St Anthony (Gillan Creek) Helford River St Mawes to Place Creek Plymouth Sutton Harbour to Mount Batten Park Wembury Point to Newton Ferrers and Noss Mayo (River Yealm) Shaldon to Teignmouth (River Teign) (This is England's longest-running passenger ferry, with written records of the ferry dating back to 1296) Turf/Topsham (River Exe) Weymouth Harbour Title: Re: Loss of small passenger ferries Post by: Reginald25 on March 27, 2020, 15:25:17 There must be numerous small ones, particularly those of pedestrians such as that at Christchurch. The definition of small appears here to be crossing a river or estuary where there is an alternative land route. Looking at the lists that have been identified, there are significant ones that are unlikely to fail, mainly those for vehicles. To the lists above I might add the Woolwich ferry, one that I know well, and of course the Ferry cross the Mersey!
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