What Ferries/Crossings Have Been Discontinued Since you Started Motorhoming/Touring ?

[EuroTrotters]

Here Goes...

Portsmouth - Bilbao - P&O Ferries
Western Channel P&O Ferries
Hull-Zeebrugge - P&O Ferries

Portsmouth - Santander Acciona (Short Lived)

Newcastle - Kristiansand - Gothenberg DFDS
Harwich - Esbjerg DFDS

Newcastle - haugesund - Stavanger - Bergen Colorline

Dover - Calais SpeedFerries (Catamaran)
Dover - Calais Hoverspeed (Hovercraft)

Folkestone - Boulogne Stena Sealink

Ramsgate - Ostende

Rosyth - Zeebrugge (Again Short Lived)

Im sure there are many other brands we can remember. But some still the routes operate under different brands.

Sally Line !
Sea France
Townsend Torsen
SeaLink

I think its a real shame that these routes no longer exist. A lot was blamed on "Cheap Flights" for their demise. But into todays clogged arterial routes through the UK (BLOODY M6). A lot of these old routes could alleviate a lot of traffic.

So, come on you oldies. Who had their car flown across the channel?

.......

 

[Neil S]

LD lines Poole to Gijon finished in 2014
Wish it was still running , a bit of competition against Brittany Ferries ⛴

 

[Electraglide]

Portsmouth- Le Havre LD Lines
Southampton-Cherbourg Sealink
Harwich-Gothenberg Scandinavian Seaways

 

[2657]

LD Lines Gijon - St Nazaire.

This route only operated for a couple of years but was very convenient for us, we have the 5'er permanently sited in Portugal and a static caravan a ten minute drive from St Nazaire.

 

[meanders]

Felixstowe - Zeebrugge with TT, Stena Harwich - Hook on the HSS, Superferry Swansea - Cork, B&I Liverpool - Dublin.

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[Lenny HB]

My Ferry - Dover/Calais

 

[Spriddler]

Brighton - Fecamp.

Hydrofoil service. Discontinued after two or three operators found it uneconomic due to frequent ferry cancellations as a result of weather conditions that made one or other of the ports untenable.

 

[Lenny HB]

Brighton - Fecamp.

Hydrofoil service. Discontinued after two or three operators found it uneconomic due to frequent ferry cancellations as a result of weather conditions that made one or other of the ports untenable.

That were a long time ago hadn't even dreamt of having a Motorhome then.

 

[deleted79651]

LD lines Poole to Gijon finished in 2014
Wish it was still running , a bit of competition against Brittany Ferries ⛴

We had 1 year of LD Lines on the Portsmouth to Le Havre overnight with free couchette; joined their Loyalty Club Scheme, and a few months later, the service ceased and the operations were subsumed into DFDS, IIRC. The LD service, comfort and price was really good, but just the one trip! Shame it stopped before it became habit forming!

Steve & Elaine

 

[Spriddler]

That were a long time ago hadn't even dreamt of having a Motorhome then.

Indeed it was, Lenny. I was one of the team brought in by the stakeholders to review the problems. I'm a 4th generation Brightonian and coincidentally had watched the marina being built on the rocks where as a nipper I used to go shrimping and winkling with my Dad. Many years later I navigated on racing yachts from the marina including to Fecamp. I knew as soon as a ferry service was mooted that it couldn't succeed due to the weather and navigational challenges of both ports.
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I used the Harwich - Esbjerg service quite often and understand that it was discontinued because the ferries didn't meet Norway's emissions standards.

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[tacr2man]

Dont forget Seaspeed and Hoverloyd who ended up becoming Hoverspeed

 

[deleted79651]

Dont forget Seaspeed and Hoverloyd who ended up becoming Hoverspeed

They could have become The First Sea Lloyd ...

Steve

 

[Puddleduck]

Colorline also used to go to Iceland - I always fancied that trip but it finished the year before I was able to go

I have a feeling the ferry didn't comply with new emissions regulations and was retired.

 

[deleted79651]

Colorline also used to go to Iceland - I always fancied that trip but it finished the year before I was able to go

I have a feeling the ferry didn't comply with new emissions regulations and was retired.

Rather like me then, also failed the emissions regulations and was retired by HR, much to the relief of the rest of the office. Would have been cheaper to open a window and ignore the Reports of Thunder ...

Steve

 

[Spriddler]

I know of half a discontinued crossing so this is half on topic.
My grandfather was part of Brighton police in the early 1940's as Beach Inspector and Superintendent supervising the trippers, the fishing boats, the shopkeepers in the 'Arches' and the itinerant seafront traders. Ice cream sellers, mostly Italians walked along the beaches and were known as the 'Okey-Pokey' men but I wasn't allowed one of their ice creams as he said they kept it under their beds. There was a fisherman on Brighton beach who rowed around eight or ten trippers at a time out to the end of the Palace Pier and back. I just about remember the fisherman's shout:
"Any more for the Skylark? Arfway to France for threppence, the other 'arf tommorrer".

I still have my granddad's regalia.

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[busby]

Newcastle to Gothenburg.Took a Commer Minibus over to Sweden on that in the 80s for a camping holiday.BUSBY.

 

[Lenny HB]

Before I was Motorhoming but been by car, Felistow to Gothenburg & Harwich to Gotenburg also Sherness to Flushing (Vlissingen).

 

[EuroTrotters]

Sign the Petition

Reopen the Harwich to Esbjerg ferry Crossing

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The last ferry link between the UK and Scandinavia ended in 2014. News is that the Scottish Government has called for a summit with ferry operators to explore the potential for a new service between Scotland and Scandinavia. And apparently P&O Ferries are willing to consider it. P&O Ferries is...

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[violet]

We took a ferry to the UK from Cuxhaven in Germany once ... that crossing is long gone.

 

[nicholsong]

Here Goes...

Portsmouth - Bilbao - P&O Ferries
Western Channel P&O Ferries
Hull-Zeebrugge - P&O Ferries

Portsmouth - Santander Acciona (Short Lived)

Newcastle - Kristiansand - Gothenberg DFDS
Harwich - Esbjerg DFDS

Newcastle - haugesund - Stavanger - Bergen Colorline

Dover - Calais SpeedFerries (Catamaran)
Dover - Calais Hoverspeed (Hovercraft)

Folkestone - Boulogne Stena Sealink

Ramsgate - Ostende

Rosyth - Zeebrugge (Again Short Lived)

Im sure there are many other brands we can remember. But some still the routes operate under different brands.

Sally Line !
Sea France
Townsend Torsen
SeaLink

I think its a real shame that these routes no longer exist. A lot was blamed on "Cheap Flights" for their demise. But into todays clogged arterial routes through the UK (BLOODY M6). A lot of these old routes could alleviate a lot of traffic.

So, come on you oldies. Who had their car flown across the channel?

.......

Very impressive memory Trev.

The one I really regret losing is Bergen - Newcastle as it was a vital link in the 'Grand Tour of Europe' I have planned for when we are no longer constrained to 4-5 week trips, although if I get any older we might have to do it cut up into those periods but that would entail a lot of flying back and forth - we do that now but only once a year.

I could name some ferry routes in Greece which are defunct, but maybe not of much interest here.

As to Trev's question "So, come on you oldies. Who had their car flown across the channel?" I could have answered some of that question because I flew the routes, if I had kept copies of the passenger manifests.

The car ferries had been operated by Silver City, originally out of Lympne and then Lydd and from Southampton. Channel Air Bridge operated from Southend. When Freddy Laker formed British United the two companies were taken over and merged as British United Air Ferries.

I joined in 1967 at Southampton, flying mostly to Cherbourg but also Jersey and Guernsey. Those routes closed at the end of that season. I moved to Lydd where the main route was to Le Touquet, but also to Calais and Deauville. The routes from Southend also included Basle, operated by converted DC-4s, designated Carvairs.

The Le Touquet-Lydd route was also operated by a French company - Compagnie Air Transport, based in Nimes but with 1-2 Bristol Freighters stationed in Le Touquet. We used each others operations/crew rooms. They provided a very attractive French stewardess with whom I had a relationship for a while, even to the point of being introduced to her parents when she invited them to Le Touquet, but the company stopped operating and she went back to Nimes - Boo Hoo!

I like ferries and we will be on Greek ones again in Sept/Oct Patmos - Piraeus and Patras - Bari, or Venice, if we can swap.

But before that we shall be going from Samos - Patmos on a small ferry 'MV Nisos Kalymnos' that chugs up and down the Dodekonese Islands and have been doing similar on its predecessors 'MV Panormitis' and 'MV Papadiamitis' on/off for the last 43 years.

Although I thoroughly enjoyed my time sailing my own yacht round the Greek islands, I am also enjoying the combination of the ferries and the MH in Greece and Italy.

Geoff

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[minesapint]

Here Goes...

Portsmouth - Bilbao - P&O Ferries
Western Channel P&O Ferries
Hull-Zeebrugge - P&O Ferries

Portsmouth - Santander Acciona (Short Lived)

Newcastle - Kristiansand - Gothenberg DFDS
Harwich - Esbjerg DFDS

Newcastle - haugesund - Stavanger - Bergen Colorline

Dover - Calais SpeedFerries (Catamaran)
Dover - Calais Hoverspeed (Hovercraft)

Folkestone - Boulogne Stena Sealink

Ramsgate - Ostende

Rosyth - Zeebrugge (Again Short Lived)

Im sure there are many other brands we can remember. But some still the routes operate under different brands.

Sally Line !
Sea France
Townsend Torsen
SeaLink

I think its a real shame that these routes no longer exist. A lot was blamed on "Cheap Flights" for their demise. But into todays clogged arterial routes through the UK (BLOODY M6). A lot of these old routes could alleviate a lot of traffic.

So, come on you oldies. Who had their car flown across the channel?

.......

Wow what a list. The one I miss most is the Harwich to Esbjerg, on the Dana Anglia. Now working the channel route.

 

[EuroTrotters]

Very impressive memory Trev.

The one I really regret losing is Bergen - Newcastle as it was a vital link in the 'Grand Tour of Europe' I have planned for when we are no longer constrained to 4-5 week trips, although if I get any older we might have to do it cut up into those periods but that would entail a lot of flying back and forth - we do that now but only once a year.

I could name some ferry routes in Greece which are defunct, but maybe not of much interest here.

As to Trev's question "So, come on you oldies. Who had their car flown across the channel?" I could have answered some of that question because I flew the routes, if I had kept copies of the passenger manifests.

The car ferries had been operated by Silver City, originally out of Lympne and then Lydd and from Southampton. Channel Air Bridge operated from Southend. When Freddy Laker formed British United the two companies were taken over and merged as British United Air Ferries.

I joined in 1967 at Southampton, flying mostly to Cherbourg but also Jersey and Guernsey. Those routes closed at the end of that season. I moved to Lydd where the main route was to Le Touquet, but also to Calais and Deauville. The routes from Southend also included Basle, operated by converted DC-4s, designated Carvairs.

The Le Touquet-Lydd route was also operated by a French company - Compagnie Air Transport, based in Nimes but with 1-2 Bristol Freighters stationed in Le Touquet. We used each others operations/crew rooms. They provided a very attractive French stewardess with whom I had a relationship for a while, even to the point of being introduced to her parents when she invited them to Le Touquet, but the company stopped operating and she went back to Nimes - Boo Hoo!

I like ferries and we will be on Greek ones again in Sept/Oct Patmos - Piraeus and Patras - Bari, or Venice, if we can swap.

But before that we shall be going from Samos - Patmos on a small ferry 'MV Nisos Kalymnos' that chugs up and down the Dodekonese Islands and have been doing similar on its predecessors 'MV Panormitis' and 'MV Papadiamitis' on/off for the last 43 years.

Although I thoroughly enjoyed my time sailing my own yacht round the Greek islands, I am also enjoying the combination of the ferries and the MH in Greece and Italy.

Geoff

Interesting and infomative reply.

Or should I say, interesting life, career and retirement!
Sounds like you are enjoying it.

Trev