Any body used it .Better to the question will your firm allow you to use it in rush hour with the hike in prices.
Somehow I assumed it would only be 14’ or so, but I had a quick google which suggests it’s 16’6, which makes sense, if you are building one from scratch.
I’m hoping if you are already set up for autopay for congestion charge etc, this would be covered too.
I wonder if the Woolwich ferry will start charging soon!
The Blackwall tunnel is now tolled as well so it’ll be the ferry or the congestion zone
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Can you still get the duty free on fags and booze on that ferry?
…and do you still get fined £2k per capita of migrants discovered in the trailer when you disembark in Silvertown? 
Our lot are so tight, they refuse to book me a cabin.
The last time I was on the Woolwich ferry the weather was so bad the ship was diverted via The Bay of Biscay, it took 4 days!
Lucky you didn’t get ransacked by Somali pirates.
He was outside of the UK, so no chance of that.
The congestion charge zone is dearer.
In another Woolwich ferry palaver the Captain had to divert via the Cape Horn due to the Ever Given container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in Egypt, the ferry company compensated us with full demurage.
You were lucky to get a cabin, we had to endure the marriage suite on the top deck which was basically a Portakabin chained down.
No option of cabins on the ferry I have to use.
But on the plus side, I don’t recall it ever being diverted.
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Is there a duty free shop onboard and an over night cabin?
In Southampton we had a pair of floating bridges from 1836 until 1977.
Now there is a rather elegant (my opinion) bridge.
That pic must have been when the bridge was just about finished, the floats are long gone now.
No duty free, but it was hi-jacked at once in living memory by rather inebriated “pirates.” Not chance of much of a chase to escape the forces of law and order obviously.
Not my photos
Fantastic photos.
That made me think of the old ferries that used to cross the Severn before the first bridge was built.
Before my time, I had to do a quick search to see if it was up to taking freight, but looking at the pictures, I’d think a van would be all you could get on.
A quick look says the Severn Bridge opened in 1966. I was still at school then.
https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2022-05-27/the-ferries-that-crossed-the-river-severn-before-the-bridges-were-built
Looks like a bonneted 4 wheeler Luton just squeezed on there?
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It might be worth noting that the active travel fraternity say that they are bitterly disappointed that this tunnel is not for their exclusive use. Cars, buses and trucks should be banned apparently. Cyclists, walkers and wheelers etc. only and of course for free.
The cyclist shuttle bus does strike me as a strange arrangement