The Torpoint Ferry is a car and pedestrian chain ferry connecting the A374 which crosses the Hamoaze, a stretch of water at the mouth of the River Tamar...
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and Torpoint West). Their combined populations at the same census were 7,717. Torpoint is linked to Plymouth (and Devonport) by the Torpoint Ferry. The...
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the Tai O Ferry (橫水渡) crossed the Tai O River before a bascule bridge was built. The largest and busiest cable ferry is the Torpoint Ferry in Plymouth...
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there was increasing demand to replace or supplement the Saltash and Torpoint ferries, which could not cope with the rise in motor traffic. The Government...
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(K271), a River class frigate Plym and Plym II, former and current Torpoint Ferries Plym, a GWR Caliph Class locomotive This disambiguation page lists...
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electoral division of Cornwall Lynher, Tamar Barge Lynher, one of the Torpoint Ferries This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lynher...
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facility in Plymouth, England Tamar, and Tamar II, former and current Torpoint Ferry vessels Tamar, a GWR Caliph Class locomotive Projeto TAMAR, a Brazilian...
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gate called New Passage was created in the 1780s, giving access to the Torpoint Ferry. After 1860, the fortifications were superseded by the Palmerston Forts...
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river. For some years the company's mainstay has been Roll-on/roll-off ferries, primarily for Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac), including a series of hybrid...
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2 regular service vessels. Cornwall portal Torpoint Ferry Langley, M. & Small, S. Estuary & River Ferries of South West England, Waine Research Publications...
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Cornwall, across the river, via the vehicle carrying Torpoint Ferry. Through the town of Torpoint the road continues, following the River Lynher, through...
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the Torpoint Ferry — a chain ferry connecting Torpoint to Devonport — and at the most downstream part of the Hamoaze there is also the Cremyll Ferry. The...
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Aquarium Plymouth College Plymouth Gin Distillery Stonehouse Creek Torpoint Ferry Union Street University of Plymouth Victoria Park List of wards in Plymouth...
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Bodmin, Truro, Redruth, Camborne, Hayle and Penzance. Torpoint Ferry links Plymouth with Torpoint on the opposite side of the Hamoaze. A rail bridge, the...
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College, which closed in August 2008 due to falling enrolment. The Torpoint Ferry service across the Hamoaze (River Tamar) operates from Devonport to...
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frequent vehicular ferry to Torpoint from Plymouth, and a passenger ferry to Cremyll from Stonehouse, Plymouth. There is also a passenger ferry from Plymouth...
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were thus alerted to leave homes within 300 metres of its journey to Torpoint Ferry slipway. On 6 December 2024 at 19:00, the system was used to alert around...
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exist: the Torpoint Ferry (a chain ferry that takes vehicles) and the Cremyll Ferry (passengers and cyclists only). A street in Torpoint bears the name Hamoaze...
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Charlotte (2017-10-25). "When Gary Oldman launched his career on the Torpoint Ferry". cornwalllive. Retrieved 2018-02-12. "Film4 - Articles - Gary Oldman...
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Floating bridge (section Ferries)
North Holland A cable ferry, especially one designed by British civil engineer James Meadows Rendel Cowes Floating Bridge Torpoint Ferry Woolston Floating...
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the original on 7 March 2009. Retrieved 1 April 2009. "HMS Vigilant: Torpoint Ferry suspended for submarine departure". BBC News. 27 March 2012. Archived...
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to carry trains across the water of the Hamoaze on the Devonport-to-Torpoint Ferry. Following this Isambard Kingdom Brunel took over as engineer and proposed...
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the Torpoint Ferry". 25 October 2017. Becquart, Charlotte; Bayley, Jon (2017-10-25). "When Gary Oldman launched his career on the Torpoint Ferry". Cornwall...
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Transport in Cornwall (section Major ferries)
traffic into south-east Cornwall used to face severe delays at the Torpoint ferry (see below) across the River Tamar but this was relieved by the opening...
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evacuations as the bomb disposal teams prepared to move the device to the Torpoint Ferry slipway to be disposed of at sea. During the incident, thousands of...
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Penlee Lifeboat Station Scillonian (disambiguation) Spirit of Mystery Torpoint Ferry Bude Canal Liskeard & Looe Union Canal Par Canal Parnall's Canal St...
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Retrieved 5 February 2021. "Rick Stein's Cornwall BBC2 show filmed on the Torpoint ferry". cornwalllive.com. 10 September 2020. Retrieved 5 February 2021. "Rick...
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the pennant number F71. On 22 January 1973, Scylla collided with the Torpoint ferry, one of three separate collisions involving four warships on the same...
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extended west from Plymouth on the former route of the A389 over the Torpoint Ferry to a junction with the A30 at Bodmin. When the Tamar Bridge was opened...
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