Basic HTML Version
2
City & Village Tours: 0845 812 5000 info@cityandvillagetours.com
The New Thames Cable Car is on its way!
and the Stadium and Hubble Bubble tower in the
Olympic Park.
Sometime soon they will be bringing in a
helicopter to lay the cables across the Thames,
an event that is likely to be all over the news.
So when your folk say “we’d love to go on that”
you can say plans are afoot for a choice of tours
including cable car rides.
For example for September dates and onward
you can come for an Olympic Legacy Tour or
Greenwich day including a cable car ride.
There will also be a choice of Christmas trips,
for example a cable car ride and Christmas
Cruise from The O
2
and a really interesting tour
that will start with the cable car ride and then
take you through Olympic London en route to
the Christmas Lights & Sights.
Keep reading monthly issues of
The Kettle
for more news.
Did you know they are building a cable car across
the River Thames? It will run from the old
Millennium Dome, now known as The O
2
,on the
south to the Royal Docks on the north. It’s going
to form a fun part of some new tours that we’ll
offer soon for dates from September this year.
They hope to have it finished in time for the
Olympics to link Europe’s largest concert and
conference venues (The O
2
and Excel) which are
both Olympic venues. It will however stay and
continue after the Olympics as a permanent
addition to the London transport network on which
you can use an Oyster Card or Freedom Card.
There will be two “stations” Emirates Greenwich
Peninsula and Emirates Royal Docks named for
the sponsors who will be paying £36 million of
the estimated £60 million cost.
The architects are Wilkinson Eyre who did the
Gateshead Millennium Bridge, The Medway
Crossing for the Channel Tunnel rail link at
Rochester and Brighton Marina and the builders
are MACE who did the London Eye and are
responsible for The Shard at London Bridge.
Thirty four white gondolas carrying ten people
each (a capacity of 2,500 people an hour) will
glide 300 feet above the River. You would just
skim the top of Big Ben at this height.
The gondolas will be suspended from cables
anchored to giant white towers whose shape
echoes the support poles that sit above the
canopy of the Dome. The 1.1km journey will be
five minutes of wonderful aerial views across to
the Royal Docks, Greenwich and the Thames
Barrier and up river to Canary Wharf, the City
This is what it will look like, it’s not got this far just yet.