Recliner wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:26:14 on Fri, 27 Mar
2015, Basil Jet remarked:
Why do both of the piers bend to face the sea? It almost looks
as if they wanted to maximise pier length while simultaneously
maximising ferry crossing distance.

Presumably to be parallel to the flow of the river?

Fair enough, although it doesn't explain why they are opposite
each other
and facing the same way, when placing the north pier by the
abandoned
railway station and bending up-river would give shorter routes to
the south pier.

Presumably they wanted the ferries to dock facing upstream?

It's tidal.

From Teddington to the North Sea.

And obviously at Woolwich.

And the flow on the tideway is a good deal quicker on the
flood than on the ebb.

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Robin
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