Terry Streeter wrote: > Paul Strudwick wrote: >> Opening times at Teddington and Brentford being 0800 to 1800 in >> the summer. At the moment outside hours is free but you can bet >> that will not last. BW again trying to get money for a service >> we already pay for at the same time as reducing facilities. > > As far as I am aware, Teddington operates from 0000 to 2359 and is > operated by EA not BW. > > > Terry Streeter > NB Arun - West Hyde
EA Thames understands about tides...and boaters who may have very little leeway about what time they arrive at Teddington, if transiting the Thames Tideway and need to plan to/from afar. I have at a good few times exited/arrived at Teddington at "silly o'clock". With BW as good as cutting out the use of Bow Lock (apart from booked passages "In Hours", when a tide is often not available) and limited opening at Brenford, Limehouse is the first point of entry as you enter the inland waterways system AND the first safe haven as you come up the Tidal Thames, with a lock which can be operate at virtually any state of the tide (OK, so not LW Springs). The existing opening hours are daft, if a workable tide is available, then tbe lock should be operable. The only sensible way out of this for BW, if then continue with this stupididy, is a great expense to provide DECENT waiting pontoons, connected SAFELY to the land, just outside the mouth of Limehouse Lock. I have seen too many disasters of boaters trying to get on the short pontoon(s) in the mouth of the lock. This is madness in the Capital city of a "major"!? seafaring nation...yet again BW have lost the plot. -- Neil Arlidge NB Earnest - Out of it. TNC...The Wilderness Years... http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
