The shortest voyage
The voyage from Sandbanks to Studland on the chain Ferry the “Bramble Bush Bay” might be the shortest car ferry service in the UK. It took about 15 minutes to load us on and about ten minutes to cross . Not enough time to get sea sick.The ferry runs daily from 7.00am to 11.10pm all year. There is usually a double deck bus on board as its part of the bus route between Dorchester and Bournemouth railway station
Operated by the Bournemouth-Swanage Motor Road and Ferry Company, the ferry (or floating bridge as it is classified as) links Bournemouth and Poole with Swanage, allowing people to avoid a 25 mile journey around the harbour by road.
The current ferry is known as “Bramble Bush Bay” and has been carrying passengers back and forth since 1994. She is the fourth ferry to operate this service since an Act of Parliament was passed in 1923 allowing the statutory company to be created and which allowed the company to charge a toll on the road it was to build from South Haven to Studland. The first journey across the harbour then came on 15th July 1926, the ferry was coal fired, steam driven and could hold 15 cars .
Bramble Bush Bay is a diesel-hydraulic driven vessel with the ability to hold 48 cars and is 242 feet in length. The chain, with drive wheels pulling the ferry along it, is only powered on one side at a time, this means less power is needed and allows the ferry to be brought better onto the slipway. It was the first ferry to be named, being named after a small bay .
The chain ferry has right of way over other vessels, except those under compulsory pilotage.
PS As Philip Male pointed out the houses on the right in Sandbanks is the most expensive property in the whole country apparently
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The shortest voyage
The voyage from Sandbanks to Studland on the chain Ferry the “Bramble Bush Bay” might be the shortest car ferry service in the UK. It took about 15 minutes to load us on and about ten minutes to cross . Not enough time to get sea sick.The ferry runs daily from 7.00am to 11.10pm all year. There is usually a double deck bus on board as its part of the bus route between Dorchester and Bournemouth railway station
Operated by the Bournemouth-Swanage Motor Road and Ferry Company, the ferry (or floating bridge as it is classified as) links Bournemouth and Poole with Swanage, allowing people to avoid a 25 mile journey around the harbour by road.
The current ferry is known as “Bramble Bush Bay” and has been carrying passengers back and forth since 1994. She is the fourth ferry to operate this service since an Act of Parliament was passed in 1923 allowing the statutory company to be created and which allowed the company to charge a toll on the road it was to build from South Haven to Studland. The first journey across the harbour then came on 15th July 1926, the ferry was coal fired, steam driven and could hold 15 cars .
Bramble Bush Bay is a diesel-hydraulic driven vessel with the ability to hold 48 cars and is 242 feet in length. The chain, with drive wheels pulling the ferry along it, is only powered on one side at a time, this means less power is needed and allows the ferry to be brought better onto the slipway. It was the first ferry to be named, being named after a small bay .
The chain ferry has right of way over other vessels, except those under compulsory pilotage.
PS As Philip Male pointed out the houses on the right in Sandbanks is the most expensive property in the whole country apparently
THANKS FOR YOUR VISITING BUT CAN I ASK YOU NOT TO FAVE AN IMAGE WITHOUT ALSO MAKING A COMMENT. MANY THANKS KEITH.
ANYONE MAKING MULTIPLE FAVES WITHOUT COMMENTS WILL SIMPLY BE BLOCKED