Cross Harbour ferry services

Cross Harbour
	Pemulwuy at Milsons Point in November 2017
Waterway	Port Jackson
Owner	Sydney Ferries
Operator	Transdev Sydney Ferries
Began operation	26 November 2017
Ended operation	24 October 2020
No. of vessels	Emerald & SuperCat class
No. of terminals	8 wharves
Sydney Ferries services
	Manly
	Taronga Zoo
	Parramatta River
	Pyrmont Bay
	Neutral Bay
	Mosman Bay
	Double Bay
	Cockatoo Island
	Watsons Bay
	Blackwattle Bay
	v; t; e;

The Cross Harbour ferry service, officially known as F4 Cross Harbour, was a commuter ferry service in Sydney, New South Wales. Part of the Sydney Ferries network, it was operated by Transdev Sydney Ferries and serviced the Darling Harbour, Lavender Bay, Rose Bay and Watsons Bay areas.

Introduced on 26 November 2017, the service replaced the entirety of the predecessor F4 Darling Harbour service and the Watsons Bay stopping pattern of the F7 Eastern Suburbs service. Emerald-class ferries and SuperCat ferries operated the service. On 25 October 2020, the service ceased and was split into F4 Pyrmont Bay and F9 Watsons Bay services.

History

Prior to the introduction of the Cross Harbour route, service patterns on the Sydney Ferries network were often divided between wharves located west of Circular Quay, and wharves located east, with the exception of a short-lived service in the mid-1990s that linked McMahons Point and Rose Bay.^[a] The Cross Harbour service is a successor to the Darling Harbour ferry service, which existed in many iterations between the 1980s and 2017. The new service was unveiled by the New South Wales Government on 27 March 2017.^[1]

Following community consultation jointly held by the ferry operator Transdev Sydney Ferries and Transport for NSW in 2019/20, the F4 route was divided into F4 Pyrmont Bay and F9 Watsons Bay services on 25 October 2020.^[2]^[3]

Wharves

Wharves served by the F4 ferry

F4 wharves
Name	Waterway	Other lines
Pyrmont Bay – Watsons Bay
Pyrmont Bay	Darling Harbour	none
Barangaroo		F3
Balmain East		F3
McMahons Point	Lavender Bay	F3
Milsons Point	Lavender Bay	F3
Circular Quay	Sydney Cove	F1 F2 F3 F5 F6 F7 F8
Rose Bay	Rose Bay	none
Watsons Bay	Watsons Bay	none

References

Notes

^ A 1995 network map shows a route originating at Circular Quay, stopping at McMahons Point, and terminating at Rose Bay.

Citations

^ More ferry routes and services between the North Shore, CBD and Eastern Suburbs Daily Telegraph 27 March 2017
^ Your Say Transdev Transdev Sydney Ferries
^ F4 Cross Harbour ferry route changes Transport NSW 9 October 2020

External links

F4 Cross Harbour timetable 1 January 2019 Transport for NSW

[1] A 1995 network map shows a route originating at Circular Quay, stopping at McMahons Point, and terminating at Rose Bay.

[2] More ferry routes and services between the North Shore, CBD and Eastern Suburbs Daily Telegraph 27 March 2017

[3] Your Say Transdev Transdev Sydney Ferries

[4] F4 Cross Harbour ferry route changes Transport NSW 9 October 2020

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