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From The BBC» Over the sea to Skye on the world’s last turntable ferry I have fond memories of using this ferry ... and others at Corran (now a larger boat) and from Kylesku to Kylestrome (now a bridge). We have a handful of ferries in the south west ... Sandbanks, Weymouth harbour, Tamar, Plymouth to France and Spain, .. and I'm going to leave it at that for others to come in and add to the list. |
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« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2023, 08:39:08 » |
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The Kylesku to Kylestrome one features strong in my memory on a university field trip to the Assynt region in 1979. Other ferries well used include the Windermere chain ferry from Bowness to Hawkshead in the Lake District and that from the Kyle of Lochalsh to Skye (now a bridge).
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« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2023, 08:46:55 » |
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While travelling to visit a series of locosheds in South Wales in the 1960s we experienced the Aust Ferry and its turntable.
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« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2023, 15:41:22 » |
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I never knew there was such a thing. Interesting!
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Waiting at Pilning for the midnight sleeper to Prague.
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grahame
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« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2023, 17:11:46 » |
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And there was one across Loch Leven - http://www.ballachulish.org/see-do/ballachulish-ferry-and-bridge/The ferry at the Ballachulish Narrows first carried cars in the early years of the 20th Century, at the time they were driven onto planks laid across large rowing boats, and then rowed across one at a time, straddling the boat. Of course, it was not until around 1927, or perhaps later that the current road around Loch Leven through Kinlochleven was completed, so in the earliest years of motoring the only alternative was the military road over the Devils Staircase and through the Lairig Mhor.
As the vehicle traffic on the ferry increased, so the standards of the boats improved, and by the 1960s the crossing was run by 3 turntable ferries, each capable of carrying 6 cars. These operated as roll-on, roll-off ferries, with a single ramp and without the need for reversing. The turntable did, however, need to be loaded fairly evenly to ensure that it turned smoothly.
All this came to an end, however, in 1975 when the Ballachulish Bridge opened. |
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« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2023, 23:17:10 » |
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From The BBC» We have a handful of ferries in the south west ... Sandbanks, Weymouth harbour, Tamar, Plymouth to France and Spain, .. and I'm going to leave it at that for others to come in and add to the list. There's the higher and lower River Dart ferries in Dartmouth.....I won't include the numerous foot passenger ferries In the region as I'm assuming it's vehicle ferries that we are talking about here. |
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« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2023, 01:21:05 » |
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Tamar More correctly, Torpoint. Then there's Lymington-Yarmouth, Southampton-East/West Cowes, Portsmouth-Ryde Pier, Southsea-Ryde, Portsmouth-Fishbourne, Southampton-Hythe, Eastney-Hayling, Hamble-Warsash, Portsmouth-Gosport, Starcross-Exmouth, Teignmouth-Shaldon, Salcombe-East Portlemouth, Plymouth-Mount Batten, Admirals Hard Plymouth-Cremyll, Polruan-Fowey, St Mawes-Place Creek, St Mawes-Falmouth, Falmouth-Ponsharden, Helford Passage-Helford Village, Penzance-St Mary's, Padstow-Rock, Bideford-Lundy, Appledore-Instow, Ilfracombe-Lundy... That'll do. Pretty much every non-international/crown dependency ferry service on the south west peninsula. Dart crossings already mentioned. |
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"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the rest of the day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
- Sir Terry Pratchett.
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« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2023, 05:17:47 » |
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Tamar More correctly, Torpoint. Then there's Lymington-Yarmouth, Southampton-East/West Cowes, Portsmouth-Ryde Pier, Southsea-Ryde, Portsmouth-Fishbourne, Southampton-Hythe, Eastney-Hayling, Hamble-Warsash, Portsmouth-Gosport, Starcross-Exmouth, Teignmouth-Shaldon, Salcombe-East Portlemouth, Plymouth-Mount Batten, Admirals Hard Plymouth-Cremyll, Polruan-Fowey, St Mawes-Place Creek, St Mawes-Falmouth, Falmouth-Ponsharden, Helford Passage-Helford Village, Penzance-St Mary's, Padstow-Rock, Bideford-Lundy, Appledore-Instow, Ilfracombe-Lundy... That'll do. Pretty much every non-international/crown dependency ferry service on the south west peninsula. Dart crossings already mentioned. You missed out Bryan! Torpoint Ferry is more correctly called a floating bridge...........and is called quite a few other things by locals when one or more of them break down or aren't running! |
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« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2023, 06:51:34 » |
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If you have got as far as Eastney-Hayling I would add the Itchenor ferry. Nice pub at Itchenor on the road down to the ferry, and check the tides if you want to cycle/walk to Bosham the other side, the road can be flooded at high tide.
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« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2023, 11:04:35 » |
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Salcombe-East Portlemouth The Salcombe-East Portsmouth ferry is all year round but there are seasonal ferries for Salcombe-Kingsbridge and Salcombe-South Sands (with it amphibious landing stage). Would the Bigbury on Sea - Burgh Island sea tractor count? It's all year round I believe. I think that there's still a seasonal ferry at nearby Bantham too. |
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« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2023, 14:12:44 » |
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« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2023, 16:04:34 » |
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From The BBC» Over the sea to Skye on the world’s last turntable ferry This is the Kylerhea to Glenelg ferry, which I also have fond memories of. The location is stunning, high mountains all around and much wildlife in the turbulent waters. The ferry operation is extraordinary to watch as they turn the turntable around in midstream. To reach it involves climbing over 1,000 feet up narrow mountain passes on both sides. I cycled this route and it was wonderful, as was the b&b in Glenelg which had one of the most helpful landladies I have ever met. From Glenelg there is a 10 mile dead-end road down the loch (well definitely up and down and running roughly parallel with the loch), which reaches a tiny hamlet in the middle of nowhere, where red deer graze on the beach and the very last terraced house does teas. At one point this road crosses a large scree slope on a 3,000 feet mountainside. Absolutely beautiful and remote. |
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« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2024, 14:17:14 » |
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Very much East Anglia orientated https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68428422but I do wonder about the smaller ferries. Is the limit for MCA inspections 12 persons, which would put the Haying ferry at risk? Not sure what the capacity on the Hamble and Itchenor ferries. The Gosport ferry only runs one boat on weekends now. I get the impression that the Shepperton ferry, on the Thames, is largely a one man band. This is the most upstream ferry, so all the foot ferries in Berkshire and Oxfordshire have presumably (long?) gone. Have not been on other small Thames ferries. Hammertons near Richmond only operates 10:00 - 18:00 so was never into the commuter market. Hampton ferry is only seasonal. How is the situation further west coastal? |
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« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2024, 16:19:44 » |
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There are a couple of survivors on the Manchester Ship Canal where the free foot ferry (bankrolled by Peel Ports - the canal owner) proved access between public footpaths that were bisected on its construction in the 1890s.
Mods: this (and maybe some above) may be better placed in the foot ferry thread.
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