Tower Millennium Pier

Tower Pier is a pier on the River Thames, in Tower Hill, London, England and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is operated by Uber Boat by Thames Clippers and served by various river transport and cruise operators. The pier is close to Tower Bridge and is situated in the immediately adjacent to the southwest corner of the Tower of London.

Tower Pier

Type	River bus and tourist/leisure services
Locale	River Thames, London, England
Owner	London River Services
Operator	Uber Boat by Thames Clippers
Characteristics
History
Opening date	14 July 2000
Coordinates	51.507367°N 0.079182°W / 51.507367; -0.079182
Tower Pier

History

Tower Millennium Pier, with the City of London's financial core behind, as seen from City Hall

Tower Millennium Pier was opened on 14 July 2000 by London Mayor Ken Livingstone.^[1][2] It 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]

Services

The pier is used by the river bus route RB1 from Battersea Power Station to Barking Riverside (operated by Uber Boat by Thames Clippers) and Westminster-Greenwich tourist boats (operated by City Cruises).^[4] Private-charter entertainment boats also use Tower Pier.^[5]

Connections

• Tower Hill tube station and Tower Gateway DLR station, Fenchurch Street railway station
• Tower Bridge Quay on the other side of Tower Bridge for Crown River Cruises
• London Buses routes 15 and N15

Lifeboat pier move

In 2002 the Royal National Lifeboat Institution'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.^[6]

Images

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  Tower Pier with Tower Bridge
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  A catamaran arriving at Tower Pier
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  The pier entrance
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  The pier with the Tower of London on the right
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  The pier and Tower Bridge seen from the air
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  A catamaran berthed at the pier

Lines

Preceding station	London River Services			Following station
London Bridge City Pier towards Battersea Power Station Pier		RB1		Canary Wharf Pier towards Barking Riverside Pier
London Bridge City Pier towards Putney Pier		RB2		Canary Wharf Pier towards North Greenwich Pier
		RB6		Canary Wharf Pier towards Royal Wharf Pier
London Eye Pier towards Westminster Millennium Pier		Westminster to Greenwich Express Service		Greenwich Pier Terminus